Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue [SEP] creator
Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue
Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue is a landscape painting dating from around 1886, by the French artist Paul Cézanne. The subject of the painting is the Montagne Sainte-Victoire in Provence in southern France. Cézanne spent a lot of time in Aix-en-Provence at the time, and developed a special relationship with the landscape. This particular mountain, that stood out in the surrounding landscape, he could see from his house, and he painted it in on numerous occasions
(25.8 in × 32.2 in) in size, one of Cézanne's smallest works in his artistic career. Cézanne depicted the same mountain several other times, including in "Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue", in "Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine", in "Plain by Mont Sainte-Victoire", and in paintings titled simply "Mont Sainte-Victoire" in the holdings of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. "Mont Sainte-Victoire and