''Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue'' is a landscape painting dating from around 1886, 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 ...

. 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 ...

Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ...

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 particular mountain, that stood out in the surrounding landscape, he could see from his house, and he painted it in on numerous occasions. 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. The painting shows clearly Cézanne's project of rendering order and clarity to natural scenes, without giving up the optical realism of Impressionism.Gombrich, pp. 538-41. Both the light and the colours of the painting give the impression of a pattern that is not imposed on nature, but is there naturally.

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*Becks-Malorny, Ulrike ''Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906: Pioneer of Modernism '' (Cologne, 2001), *Gombrich, E.H., ''The Story of Art'', 16th ed. (London & New York, 1995),
Tomoki Akimaru, "Cézanne and the Steam Railway (1)~(7)", (Japan, 2012).
{{Paul Cézanne 1880s paintings Paintings by Paul Cézanne Collection of the Barnes Foundation

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