House in Provence

House in Provence
Artist	Paul Cézanne
Year	1885 (1885)
Type	Oil painting on canvas
Dimensions	65 cm × 81 cm (25.5 in × 32 in)
Location	Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

House in Provence (French title: Maison devant la Sainte-Victoire près de Gardanne) is an oil painting by French artist Paul Cézanne. Created between 1886 and 1890,^[1] as of 2012^[update] it is part of the permanent collection in the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Description

With muted tones and soft colors, Cézanne painted a home, accented by the gray-blue mountains in the background, the soft greens of the rolling hills, and the brown tones of the fields. Cézanne's dynamic style is best observed closely in this painting; the brushstrokes intersect in dynamic way, creating a patchwork. The brushstrokes create lively movement within the hard lines that he creates to border the house and the mountain.^[2]

Historical information

House in Provence comes out of Cézanne's 'mature style', where he lived in Provence with his family, where Cézanne lived as a youth. This landscape is set on the South side of Montagne Sainte-Victoire, which was a favorite subject of the artist.^[3] Cézanne did not share the same interests as the rest of the impressionists, instead focusing his work on the basic structure of his subjects. Here are the horizontal bands of grey-blue, green, and brown, contrasting with the vertical trees and the solidly-built isolated farmhouse.^[4]

Provenance

House in Provence was probably bought by the artist Ambroise Vollard. In 1910, it was sold to Henri Bernstein. It was likely sold to Gottlieb Reber in 1918. It was sold to Marie Harriman by 1936. In 1945, the piece was purchased by Caroline Marmon Fesler for the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art, in memory of her parents, Daniel W. and Elizabeth C. Marmon.^[4]

See also

• List of paintings by Paul Cézanne

References

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Paul Cézanne

Paintings

• List of paintings
• The Negro Scipion (1867)
• The Overture to Tannhäuser (1869)
• L'Estaque, Melting Snow (c. 1871)
• The Hanged Man's House (1873)
• L'Après-midi à Naples (c. 1876)
• The Eternal Feminine (c. 1877)
• View of Auvers-sur-Oise (1879–80)
• Three Bathers (1879-1882)
• Portrait of Louis Guillaume (1879–1882)
• Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley (1882–1885)
• Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan (c. 1884)
• Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue (1885)
• House in Provence (1885)
• Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan (c. 1886)
• Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine (c. 1887)
• Portrait of Madame Cézanne with Loosened Hair (1883–1887)
• The Banks of the Marne (1888)
• Pierrot and Harlequin (1888-1890)
• Still Life with Peaches and Pears (1888-1890)
• View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph (late 1880s)
• The Basket of Apples (c. 1893)
• Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier (1893–1894)
• The Boy in the Red Vest (1894–1895)
• Portrait of Gustave Geffroy (1895)
• Bridge Across a Pond (1895-1898)
• Seated Peasant (c. 1892-1896)
• Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1899)
• Pipe Smoker Leaning on a Table (1895-1900)
• Women Bathing (c. 1900)
• Lady in Blue (c. 1900)
• Pyramid of Skulls (1901)
• Forest (1902–1904)
• The Bunch of Flowers (1902-1904)
• The Bathers (1898–1905)
• Still Life with Teapot (1902–1906)
• La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir (1904)

Series

• The Card Players (1890–1895)
• Mont Sainte-Victoire (1904-1906)

Family

• Marie-Hortense Fiquet (model and wife)

Museums

• Cézanne's studio

Related

• Homage to Cézanne (1900 painting)
• The Impressionists (2006 series)
• Cézanne and I (2016 film)
• Cézanne (crater)