In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Rather than depicting a recognizable site or a spectacular view, as had been the tradition in French landscape painting, here Cézanne focused on an ordinary tree next to a road. Trees appear frequently in Cézanne's work, sometimes as framing devices for a view into the distance, but more often as the main subject. Scraggly branches reach across this canvas as distant foliage is abstracted into a screen of broad, flat marks. Cézanne probably painted this scene on or near his family's property outside of Aix-en-Provence.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Autumn Landscape (Paysage d'automne)
Paul Sérusier — Paysage
Paul Cezanne — Château Noir
Raoul Dufy — Trees in L'Estaque
Henri Matisse — Trivaux Pond
Robert Delaunay — Saint-Cloud, Landscape Study
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Landscape (Paysage)
Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906) — Mount Sainte-Victoire
Edvard Munch — Green Tree by the Road
Franz Marc — Weasels at Play
Edvard Munch — Trees and Buttercups
Gustave Caillebotte — Allée bordée d'arbres
