Mill on the Couleuvre at Pontoise
1881 Alte Nationalgalerie
About this artwork
This oil painting by Paul Cézanne depicts a landscape featuring a mill on the Couleuvre river in Pontoise, France. It is an example of the artist's structured approach to landscape painting during his formative period.
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Cézanne frequently visited Pontoise in the late 1870s and early 1880s, often painting alongside Camille Pissarro. This period was crucial for the development of his distinctive style, where he began to move away from purely impressionistic observations towards a more analytical and architectural rendering of nature, laying the groundwork for modern art movements like Cubism.
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Mill on the Couleuvre at Pontoise
Paul Cezanne, 1881
