Trees (Arbres) [recto]; Encagnane with the Pilon du Roi (Encagnane et le Pilon du Roi) [verso]
Recto: c. 1885; Verso: c. 1885
Watercolor and graphite on laid paper
31 × 47.2 cm (12.2 × 18.6 in)
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● On view now — Collection Gallery, Room 20, South Wall
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
In 1921, Albert Barnes bought a batch of watercolors by Paul Cézanne from Leo Stein (Gertrude Stein's brother), including this landscape of trees. During recent treatment, conservators discovered a previously unknown watercolor by the artist—a drawing of a manor house and rock formation in the distance—on the back. Cézanne often worked this way, using both sides of the pages in his sketchbooks as he walked the landscape around Aix-en-Provence.
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