Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine

Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine
Artist Paul Cézanne
Year c. 1887
Type 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]

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