Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine explained

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Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine
Artist:Paul Cézanne
Year:c. 1887
Medium:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:67
Width Metric:92
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
City:London
Museum:Courtauld Gallery

Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Paul Cézanne. It is owned by the Courtauld Institute of Art and on display in the Gallery at Somerset House. It belongs to a series of oil paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire that Cézanne painted throughout his career.[1]

Description

The subject of the painting is the Montagne Sainte-Victoire in Provence in southern France. Cézanne spent a lot of time in Aix-en-Provence at the time, and developed a special relationship with the landscape. This painting represented the Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Montbriand in Aix-en-Provence.

Moreover, Cézanne depicted the railway bridge on the Aix-Marseille line at the Arc River Valley in the center on the right side of this picture.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: A&A | Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine. www.artandarchitecture.org.uk. 10 November 2022.
  2. Web site: Cézanne and the Steam Railway (3): His Railway Subjects in Aix-en-Provence. Tomoki Akimaru (Art Historian). 10 November 2022.