Landscape Near Aix-en-Provence

1877/1880

Paul Cezanne

Artist, French, 1839 - 1906

At least four buildings are lightly sketched in black graphite across two long pages of an open notebook. The largest of the four buildings is to the right, and it nearly spans the height of the page. It has three levels and a chimney. Three buildings stretching to the left may be conjoined to each other and possibly to the first structure. These have one or two stories and are sketched with less detail. Trees and shrubs peek over and around these structures. The leftmost quarter of the spread is harder to make out. A horizontal line near the top edge of that sheet could be a high horizon with trees and perhaps a church steeple silhouetted against the sky. Under that, some horizontal and vertical lines at first suggest another structure of some kind, but details as well as some darker shapes there are difficult to interpret. The paper is yellowed with age.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Cézanne (the artist's son), Paris; Paul Guillaume, Paris; Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve, Switzerland, 1933; Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1967; gift to NGA, 1991

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • NGA Anniversary 1991, 176.

1999

  • An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.

2015

  • Victor Chocquet: Art Collector and Friend of the Impressionists Renoir, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz", Winterthur, 2015, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1973

  • Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cezanne. 2 vols. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1973.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in graphite: IIII; by later hand, upper right in graphite: 7

Wikidata ID

Q64618856


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