Pipe Smoker Leaning on a Table

Pipe Smoker Leaning on a Table (French - Le Fumeur de pipe accoudé) is an 1895-1900 oil on canvas painting by Paul Cézanne now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.[1][2][3]

It shows a peasant (almost certainly Paulin Paulet) smoking a clay pipe whilst leaning on a table at the Jas de Bouffan, the painter's family estate, with part of the same painter's Woman with a Cafetière (Musée d'Orsay). The painter returned to the theme several times, most notably The Pipe Smoker (Hermitage Museum).

The work formed part of Sergei Shchukin's collection, having been sold to him by Ambroise Vollard in 1913. Shchukin's whole collection was seized by the Soviet state in spring 1918 and Pipe Smoker was initially assigned to the Museum of Modern Western Art in Moscow, before moving to its present home in 1948. It appeared in temporary exhibitions in Moscow in 1926[4] and 1955[5] and twice in Leningrad in 1956[6] (including the Cézanne exhibition[7]). It was then exhibited at Bordeaux in 1965,[8] Paris in winter 1965-1966[9] and finally in Osaka in 1970.[10]