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Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan

Authors

RISD Museum
Deborah Bright, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Eric Kramer, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

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Description

The Cézanne family’s country home outside Aix-en-Provence appeared often in the artist’s work. Called Jas de Bouffan (“sheepfold of the winds”), the property consisted of an 18th-century manor house with surrounding gardens and a farm. Just out of sight of this view, beyond the farm buildings at right, loomed another favorite motif: the shimmering Montagne Sainte-Victoire. In 1881 Paul Cézanne built a studio at Jas de Bouffan and for the next eighteen years spent much of his time painting nearby landscapes. This composition features an allée of chestnut trees seen from the garden behind the house. Cézanne massed the trees at left, covering the yellow stucco planes of the house with a blanket of spring foliage. The trees, lawn, and sky are rendered as organized patches of color whose surface rhythms embrace the interlocking geometric shapes of the house, wall, and farm buildings. ca. 1886

Publication Date

8-20-2014

Publisher

RISD Museum

City

Providence, Rhode Island

Keywords

Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Jas de Bouffan

Disciplines

Painting

Recommended Citation

RISD Museum; Bright, Deborah; and Kramer, Eric, "Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan" (2014). Channel. 13.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/risdmuseum_channel/13