Labels:text | screenshot | black and white | font | document OCR: Portrait of the Painter, Achille Emperaire Cézanne met the Aix-born painter Achille Emperaire (1829-98) not in the south of France but at the Atelier Suisse, where they were both working on life studies. A penniless artist with an ungainly physique, Emperaire was helped by his fellow southerner on more than one occasion, and by painting this monumental portrait of him, Cezanne transformed the poor outcast into an heroic figure, in much the same way that Velazquez's paintings of dwarfs had done. The painting was refused by the selection committee of the Salon in 1870. At once naive, ingenuous and theatrical, the work is a celebration of the character of the subject and of his pathetic fate. It was justly described by a mutual friend, Joachim Gasquet: 'A dwarf, but with a magnificent head, l ...
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