France, late 19th-early 20th Century / c. 1904
Mount Sainte-Victoire
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Mount Sainte-Victoire as painting (France, late 19th-early 20th Century · c. 1904).
Cezanne created 36 paintings and 45 watercolors of Mount Sainte-Victoire. He was preoccupied with this subject and painted this mountain repeatedly until his death.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this painting as oil on fabric and credits Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906).
The museum's collection notes: During the last 20 years of his life, Cezanne repeatedly painted Mount Sainte-Victoire near his home in Aix-en-Provence in southern France. Cezanne painted this view from life at one of his favorite sites, a small road that led from Aix eastward toward Mount Sainte-Victoire. He set up his easel at the edge of the road where he could see two umbrella pines and the mountain towering over the scene. A branch of one of the pines extends from the left of the canvas across the sky, echoing the slope of the mountain, linking the near and the far.
FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE
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