A few pale brown buildings with terracotta red roofs are nestled among hills at the base of a towering, icy-blue mountain in this horizontal landscape painting. Only the pale indigo-violet shadows of the mountain are laid in, leaving the rest as the white of the canvas. The buildings and muted brown hills, blue shadows, and touches of sage green below are loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout around more blank areas of canvas.

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Montagne Sainte-Victoire, from near Gardanne

Paul Cezanne (French, 1839 - 1906)

c. 1887

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 67.2 x 91.3 cm (26 7/16 x 35 15/16 in.) ; framed: 90.1 x 114.3 x 10.1 cm (35 1/2 x 45 x 4 in.)
Culture: French
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line: Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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