Joachim Gasquet (1873-1921) was a writer and an art critic, as well as a personal friend of the artist Paul Cézanne. Gasquet's father Henri was a schoolboy friend of Cézanne's in Aix-en-Provence, and in his later years Cézanne painted impressive portraits of both father and son. Joachim himself, a young man with a consuming interest in literature and Provencal culture, first came to know Cézanne in 1896. On numerous occasions prior to Cézanne's death in 1906, he saw and talked with the artist he so much admired.