Mont Sainte-Victoire (La Montagne Sainte-Victoire) by Paul Cezanne, circa 1892–1895, Barnes Foundation. Paul Cezanne was throughout his lifetime in awe at the Mont Sainte-Victoire, which overlooked and commanded the scenery in Cezanne's hometown, Aix-en-Provence. Such was Cezanne's love and reverence for the mountain, he would in 1901 buy a plot of land overlooking the Mont Saint Victoire, on which he built a studio. The mountain, furthermore, frequently appears as a motif in Cezanne's…
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