Paul Cézanne: Woman in Blue

Several of Cezanne’s Impressionist portraits which were painted during the 1890s and early 1900s are distinctive for the slightly strained pose of the sitter, and for the oval-like arrangement of the hands, which impart more stability and significance to the figure painting despite the everyday clothes and unassuming features of the sitter. Woman in Blue is located in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.