Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras or Pierrot and Harlequin is an oil on canvas by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) kept at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. It measures 102 × 81 cm and dates from 1888. This painting represents the artist's son, Paul, with his friend Louis Guillaume, disguised as Pierrot and Harlequin for Shrove Tuesday, in the studio on rue du Val-de-Grâce.

This painting first belonged to the collector Victor Chocquet (1821-1891), then it was sold by his widow to the gallery owner Paul Durand-Ruel in 1899. The latter sold it to the Moscow collector Sergei Shchukin in 1904. It was confiscated by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution and transferred in 1918 to the Museum of New Western Art in Moscow, then in 1948 to the Hermitage.