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We look across a body of water at two houses, some smaller outbuildings, and a houseboat along the far bank in this abstracted, horizontal landscape painting. Painted with thin, loose strokes of moss and pine green, pale topaz and denim blue, and black, many of the details are indistinct. The cream-white houses have dark roofs and are nearly engulfed by tall, lush trees that reach nearly to the top of the canvas. Fog-gray clouds float against a watery blue sky above. The green of the trees is reflected in the water below, where some of the canvas remains unpainted, especially in the lower…

At the Water's Edge

Paul Cezanne (French, 1839 - 1906)

c. 1890 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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