{"id":84323,"date":"2021-09-02T18:13:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/uncategorized\/chateau-noir\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:50:53","slug":"chateau-noir","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/paul-cezanne\/chateau-noir\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul C\u00e9zanne \u2013 Ch\u00e2teau Noir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ch\u00e2teau Noir \u2013 the house C\u00e9zanne could not buy<\/h2>\n

Ch\u00e2teau Noir is an abandoned property with a sharp yellow-ochre fa\u00e7ade among the pines east of Aix-en-Provence. C\u00e9zanne wanted to buy it and was refused; instead he rented a room there and painted it again and again. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this mysterious subject into your home, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

A name that misleads<\/h3>\n

The building is neither a ch\u00e2teau nor black. The name comes from local stories \u2013 villagers said an alchemist had lived there and that the wall had been blackened as a result. The building itself is an unfinished 19th-century neo-Gothic house of pale stone. We give the story as folklore, not as historical fact.<\/p>\n

A subject seen through trees<\/h3>\n

C\u00e9zanne almost never shows the building whole. We always look at it through a mesh of pine branches, so that the fa\u00e7ade is cut into pieces. This method \u2013 a solid object seen through scattered foliage \u2013 let him bring two entirely different substances together on one canvas: stone mass and airy greenery.<\/p>\n

What you see on the canvas<\/h3>\n

The ochre fa\u00e7ade with its tall window openings stands in the upper half of the scene, surrounded by a dark blue-green canopy; below, rocky ground shows through the shade. The original is painted in oil on canvas, by the collection\u2019s record measures about 96.6 \u00d7 73.7 cm, and was made in the last years of the painter\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

A mysterious house among the pines<\/h3>\n

The dark, saturated scale of this subject only comes through in real applied paint \u2013 which is why we paint by hand and never print. Ten sizes, and your own measurements on request. The subject works well in a room with warm, soft light. A realistic 3D preview shows you which frame suits it. Among our reproductions on canvas<\/strong> you will find other subjects from around Ch\u00e2teau Noir: Maison Maria with a View of Ch\u00e2teau Noir<\/a>, Rocks and Branches at Bib\u00e9mus<\/a> and The Great Pine<\/a>.<\/p>\n