Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan, c. 1885-1886
Paul Cézanneexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
The William Hood Dunwoody Fundexpand_more 49.9
On View in Gallery 355expand_more
This painting represents an avenue on the grounds of Paul Cézanne's family estate in southern France in Aix-en-Provence. In this view, he carefully recorded the color and light of the wintry scene, with its tracery of bare branches against the sky. To create an ordered pictorial design, he selected this particular view, emphasizing its rigorous horizontal and vertical structures. In depicting the chestnut trees, he employed multiple viewpoints; this collapses depth, meshing the two parallel rows of trees into a web that seems to exist in one plane. This characteristic innovation produced a rhythmic synthesis of form in both two and three dimensions.
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- Title
- Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan
- Artist Life
- 1839 - 1906
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 49.9
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Rewald, no. 551
- Curator Approved
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