Figure 28 Paul Cézanne Young Italian Woman ata Table, 1895-1900 Oil on canvas, 91.8 x 73.3 cm (36 Va x 28% in) Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum 99.PA.40 mounding, and folding. Looking back to Still Life with Blue Pot now—minus any human figure or invitation to sit, grasp, and lean—we find that the tapestry here has a function similar to that in Young Italian Woman at a Table. It rounds out the table into something else, not just something that one might handle as well as look at, but something that might be a seat as much as a table, that one might sink into and dis- pose one's arms and legs around, were it not for the still life sitting upon that good 63 THE LANDSCAPE OF STILL LIFE

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