Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine

Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine

Artist	Paul Cézanne
Year	c. 1887
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	67 cm × 92 cm (26.4 in × 36.2 in)
Location	Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine is a series of oil paintings by the French artist Paul Cézanne.

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 Montbriant in Aix-en-Provance.

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.^[1]

References

Sources

• Tomoki Akimaru, "Cézanne and the Steam Railway (1)~(7)", (Japan, 2012).

Paul Cézanne
General	Biography Impressionism Post-Impressionism Cubism
Family	Marie-Hortense Fiquet
Friends	Achille Emperaire Antoine Fortuné Marion Philippe Solari Émile Zola Camille Pissarro Émile Bernard Joachim Gasquet
Art dealers	Ambroise Vollard
Paintings	List of paintings L'Estaque, Melting Snow (c. 1871) Portrait of Louis Guillaume (1879-82) Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley (1882-85) Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue (1885) Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine (c. 1887) Portrait of Madame Cézanne with Loosened Hair (1883-1887) Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier (1893–1894) The Card Players (1890-95) The Boy in the Red Vest (1894–95) The Basket of Apples (1895) Portrait of Gustave Geffroy (1895) Pyramid of Skulls (1901) Forest (1902–04) The Bathers (1898–1905) Still Life with Teapot (1902–06)