Detail View: The AMICA Library: Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan
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AMICA ID:
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MIA_.49.9
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AMICA Library Year:
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1998
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Cézanne, Paul
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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painter
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1839 - 1906
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Paul Cézanne
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Title:
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Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan
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View:
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Front
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Creation Date:
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1885 - 1886
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Creation Start Date:
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1885
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Creation End Date:
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1886
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Materials and Techniques:
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oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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H.27-3/4 x W.35-5/16 in.
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Component Measured:
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overall
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Measurement Unit:
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in
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Owner Location:
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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ID Number:
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49.9
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Credit Line:
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The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
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Rights:
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Context:
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This painting represents an avenue on the grounds of Paul Cézanne's family estate in southern France in Aix-en-Provence. In the 1880s, Cézanne set an unusual challenge for himself. He wanted to portray his native landscape with all its specifics of weather, light, and atmosphere, but he also wished to reveal the immutable geometries of nature. Here, Cézanne 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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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MIA_.87c.tif
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