Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan

Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan by Paul Cézanne: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

What to notice

Look through the screen of tree trunks toward the blocky houses; repeated verticals and interlocking color patches make depth feel built rather than merely observed.

Discover

Cézanne painted Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan in 1885–86. Tree trunks screen the blocklike buildings, and interlocking color patches construct the view through repeated verticals instead of conventional atmospheric depth.