Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue

Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue

Artist	Paul Cézanne
Year	c. 1885
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	73 cm × 92 cm (37.5 in × 51.3 in)
Location	Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania

Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue is a landscape painting dating from around 1885, by the French artist Paul Cézanne. 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 particular mountain, that stood out in the surrounding landscape, he could see from his house, and he painted it in on numerous occasions.^[1]

The painting shows clearly Cézanne's project of rendering order and clarity to natural scenes, without giving up the optical realism of Impressionism.^[2] Both the light and the colours of the painting give the impression of a pattern that is not imposed on nature, but is there naturally.^[2]

References

1. ^ Becks-Malorny, p. 67.
2. ^ ^{a b} Gombrich, pp. 538-41.

Sources

• Becks-Malorny, Ulrike Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906: Pioneer of Modernism (Cologne, 2001), ISBN 3-8228-642-8
• Gombrich, E.H., The Story of Art, 16th ed. (London & New York, 1995), ISBN 0-7148-3355-X