Labels:text | black and white | font | screenshot | document OCR: Woman with a Coffee Pot There is something of Masaccio or Piero della Francesca in this large, simple figure of a woman. According to one of her descendants, the model was a servant, who would have posed for the sittings in Paris, not at the Jas de Bouffan. This may be the reason for the stiff, rather uneasy attitude of the sitter. The resemblance in the pose to some of the portraits of Hortense Fiquet, who has sometimes been identified as the woman with the coffee pot, may suggest that Cézanne deliberately wanted to keep an emotional distance from his model. The expression on her face is enigmatic. Lionello Venturi noted, quite accurately, that 'she is standing there as firm as a tower'. The thick, dark hands are accustomed to domestic work, and their simplified shape makes them look like ...
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