A tilted basket of apples, a bottle, a plate of biscuits, a crumpled tablecloth. Cézanne said he wanted to “astonish Paris with an apple”.

Look at the table: its front edge doesn’t line up on either side of the cloth. The bottle leans. The plate of biscuits is seen from above. Cézanne combined several viewpoints in one picture, which later inspired the Cubists.