(b. 1839, Aix-en-Provence, d. 1906, Aix-en-Provence)
The Railway Cutting
c. 1870
Oil on canvas, 80 x 129 cm
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Cézanne painted this ordinary-looking landscape near Aix in the bright colour of the Impressionists, but without creating atmosphere by resolving the forms. This is the first of his paintings to feature the mountain he loved so much, Mont Saint-Victoire.
