Rocks and Trees (Rochers et arbres)

Discussion

FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

The vertical composition of this landscape emphasizes the steep rocky hill and tall pine trees. It was likely painted near the Château Noir, a neo-Gothic castle in Provence with views of Mont Sainte-Victoire, or within the forest of Fontainebleau, an area southeast of Paris. The rock-strewn hillside in this painting is made up of short "constructive" brushstrokes of green and orange, broken up by the gray, blue, and pink of the stone and its shadows, a style the artist developed by the late 1870s.

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