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Mount Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cezanne, c. 1904
For about the last twenty years of his life, Paul Cezanne kept returning to Mount Sainte-Victoire, the limestone mountain near his home in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. The Cleveland Museum of Art says he painted this one, around 1904, from life at one of his favourite spots, beside a small road running east from Aix.
He set up his easel at the roadside, where he could see two umbrella pines and the mountain rising behind them. A branch of one pine reaches in from the left across the sky and follows the slope of the mountain, which ties the near and the far parts of the picture together.
Cezanne built forms from small patches of colour instead of outline and shading, and that approach influenced many later painters. The canvas is about 72 by 92 centimetres.
From the museum record
| Artist | Paul Cezanne |
|---|---|
| Date | c. 1904 |
| Medium | Oil on fabric |
| Size | Unframed: 72.2 x 92.4 cm |
| Museum | The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| Credit line | Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. |
| Accession number | 1958.21 |
| Licence | Open Access (CC0) |
Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art collection record. Facts such as dates, sizes and credit lines come from that record. The write-up above was drafted with AI assistance and checked against the museum record and standard references. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.
