Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
1882–85 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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About this work
- Artist
- Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)
- Year
- 1882–85
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 65.4 × 81.6 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
- Series
- Mont Sainte-Victoire series
The limestone ridge of Mont Sainte-Victoire rises above the valley of the Arc river near Aix-en-Provence, with a railway viaduct cutting across the fields and a single pine slicing the view in two. Cézanne painted it between 1882 and 1885 from the hill behind Montbriand, his sister's property, and it is the most fully worked canvas of his first sustained campaign on the mountain he had known since childhood. He had written to Zola in 1878 of the beautiful motif seen from the new Aix–Marseille train as it crossed the valley. The viaduct reads almost like a Roman aqueduct, recalling Poussin, and the picture sets out his ambition to make of Impressionism something solid and durable like the art of the museums. Louisine Havemeyer owned it, and it came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with her bequest in 1929.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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