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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.”
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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L'Estaque, Melting Snow
Paul Cézanne