The Gulf of Marseilles Seen from L'Estaque

Le golfe de Marseille vu de l'Estaque

The Gulf of Marseilles Seen from L'Estaque

Paul Cézanne · 1885

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

“Writing to Pissarro about this stretch of coast, Cézanne described it as looking "like a playing card: red roofs over the blue sea." The canvas entered the Met via the Havemeyer bequest in 1929.”

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

73 × 100.3 cm (28.7 × 39.5 in)

Painted at

L'Estaque, France

Current location

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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