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La Tranchée du chemin de fer
Paul Cézanne · 1870
Bavarian State Painting Collections
Munich, Germany
About this painting
This early landscape near Aix-en-Provence marks one of Cézanne's first depictions of Mont Sainte-Victoire, the mountain that would obsess him for the rest of his career.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
80.4 × 129.4 cm (31.7 × 50.9 in)
Painted at
Aix-en-Provence, France
Current location
Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich
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