Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle

In the autumn of 1866, Cézanne undertook a series of paintings of his maternal uncle, Dominique Aubert, in different costumes. Here, he dons a robe and tasseled blue cap. In another work in The Met’s collection, he poses as a monk (1993.400.1). A friend reported: "Every day there appears a [new] portrait of him." Cézanne applied his paint directly with a palette knife on the coarsely woven canvas, giving these pictures what he called a "gutsy" character.

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Notes:
Originally referred to as a self-portrait, this work was identified as a portrait of Cézanne's uncle in 1923 (see Rivière 1923). It belongs to a series of nine portraits of Dominique Aubert that Cézanne painted in the fall of 1866 at his father's home, the Jas de Bouffan in Aix. The other portraits are in the MMA (1993.400.1; R107), the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (R106), the Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena (R102), King's College, Cambridge, on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum (R111), and various private collections (R103, 104, 105, 109).
(Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art)