Description
Jas de Bouffan – chestnut trees in winter
This is a winter view across the family estate of Jas de Bouffan near Aix-en-Provence: bare chestnut trunks stand like a mesh against a bright sky, and in the background the ridge of Mont Sainte-Victoire is barely visible. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this restrained, almost graphic subject into your home, painted in oil on canvas.
Why Cézanne painted trees without leaves
In winter the avenue showed what interested Cézanne most: construction. Stripped of leaves, the trunks and branches became a drawing across the whole canvas, through which the space behind them stays visible. He painted the same avenue in summer as well, but the winter versions are considered the more radical.
The estate his father bought
Jas de Bouffan was bought in 1859 by the painter’s father, Louis-Auguste. For Cézanne the estate was home, studio and an inexhaustible subject for almost forty years – from the salon, where he was allowed to paint straight onto the wall, to the park and the pond. The family sold it in 1899.
What you see on the canvas
The foreground is meadow in green and ochre strokes, the middle is taken by the row of trunks, the estate building stands to the left, and a low stone wall runs along the bottom. The original is painted in oil on canvas and by the collection’s record measures 90.1 × 71.1 cm; it was made in the mid-1880s.
A winter avenue for your wall
The bare trunks are a drawing across the whole canvas, so we paint them by hand – printed, they lose their depth. You can choose among ten sizes, and we will paint yours to measure if you prefer. The quiet green-grey scale suits warm wood and older furniture. Try the frame in our app’s 3D preview. Among our reproductions of famous paintings you will find other subjects from the Jas de Bouffan estate and its surroundings: Jas de Bouffan, The Pond, Mont Sainte-Victoire and The Great Pine.
- Subject: Jas de Bouffan, Paul Cézanne, mid-1880s
- Technique: hand-painted painting, oil on canvas, reproduction
- Sizes: 10 formats, stretched on a wooden stretcher frame on request, or made to your measurements
- Fact: the painter portrayed the same chestnut avenue in every season, and the winter versions are held to be the most radical
