From T.J. Clark’s If These Apples Should Fall: “The orchard in Garden of Maubuisson’s foreground lay directly behind Pissarro’s house. Pissarro was the Cezanne painting’s first owner.”
This detail set something off inside me. So painters owned paintings by other painters (and a few pages later he details how Degas owned a Pissarro, as well)—it shouldn’t be surprising, but that people for hundreds of years owned paintings by others, probably mostly locals, this sticks out. It was a world rich in anniversaries and people supported others through small-time patronage, but more so their decorations and adornments were the art and crafts of their time. These were the images which ran before their eyes daily.
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