The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque

Paul Cezanne

Painted

c. 1885

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Oil on canvas

Cézanne painted this view over the Bay of Marseille from L'Estaque, the fishing village where his mother had a house. Orange roofs, deep blue sea and lilac hills stack in horizontal bands, laid down in brick-like strokes. He wrote to Pissarro that the sea here looked "like a playing card set against black silhouettes".

Object record (Art Institute of Chicago) · CC0

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