''Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine'' is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically d ...
. It is owned by the
Courtauld Institute of Art
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and on display in the
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at
Somerset House. It belongs to a series of
oil paintings
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of
Mont Sainte-Victoire that Cézanne painted throughout his career.
Description
The subject of the painting is the
Montagne Sainte-Victoire
Montagne Sainte-Victoire ( Provençal oc, Venturi / Santa Venturi according to classical orthography and oc, Ventùri / Santo Ventùri, label=none according to Mistralian orthography) is a limestone mountain ridge in the south of France whi ...
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 Montbriant 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.
See also
*
List of paintings by Paul Cézanne
This is an incomplete list of the paintings by the French painter Paul Cézanne. The artistic career of Cézanne spanned more than forty years, from roughly 1860 to 1906, and formed a bridge between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Cézanne ...
References
Sources
Tomoki Akimaru, "Cézanne and the Steam Railway (1)~(7)", (Japan, 2012).
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1880s paintings
Paintings by Paul Cézanne
Paintings in the Courtauld Gallery