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Mount Sainte-Victoire
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMount Sainte-Victoire, c. 1904. Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906). Oil on fabric; framed: 87.5 x 106.5 x 7 cm (34 7/16 x 41 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 72.2 x 92.4 cm (28 7/16 x 36 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1958.21
