Montagne Sainte-Victoire, from near Gardanne

Paul Cezanne, c. 1887

A few pale brown buildings with terracotta red roofs are nestled among hills at the base of a towering, icy-blue mountain in this horizontal landscape painting. Only the pale indigo-violet shadows of the mountain are… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Paul Cezanne ¹
Date: c. 1887 ¹
Medium: oil on canvas ¹
Original: 17,962 × 13,099 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman

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