Cézanne first painted Mont Sainte-Victoire in 1870, beginning his decades-long fascination with the subject that ultimately yielded more than thirty paintings and watercolors of it. The peak played an important role in the ancient history of his native Aix-en-Provence. Its name refers to a Roman victory in 102 b.c. over Teutonic armies in the area. Cézanne created his later views of Sainte-Victoire, including this one, in his hillside studio at Les Lauves, where he was afforded a magnifi cent view of the soaring mountain from across the valley, with its farmland and distinctive olive and almond trees.
-gallery label from the Princeton University Art Museum
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Paul_C%C3%A9zanne" class="extiw" title="w:en:Paul Cézanne"><span title="French painter">Paul Cézanne</span></a>
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circa 1904 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1904-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>-06
Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection