L'estaque cezanne
The sea at l'estaque.
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L'Estaque, Melting Snow
Painting by Paul Cézanne
| L'Estaque, Melting Snow | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Paul Cézanne |
| Year | c.1871 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 28.75 cm × 36.25 cm (11.32 in × 14.27 in) |
| Location | Private collection |
L'Estaque, Melting Snow is a c.
1871 oil-on-canvas painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. It shows a view from the outskirts of L'Estaque, a small village near Marseille, with a steep hillside covered in a drift of melting snow underneath a foreboding dark grey sky.[1]
Filled with intense emotion, the painting has been described as similar to the work of Vincent van Gogh the following decade, and a painting ise formally similar to early 20th-century than contemporaneous art.[2]L'Estaque, Melting Snow was painted in a single session.[3] It is one of only two snow-laden winter subjects Cézanne painted.[3]
Background
Cézanne moved to P