{"id":84529,"date":"2021-09-02T18:16:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/uncategorized\/lake-annecy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:54:14","slug":"lake-annecy","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/paul-cezanne\/lake-annecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul C\u00e9zanne \u2013 Lake Annecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lake Annecy \u2013 C\u00e9zanne\u2019s only Alpine subject<\/h2>\n

Lake Annecy was made in the summer of 1896, when C\u00e9zanne spent a few weeks in Savoy \u2013 far from his Provence. Past a dark tree in the foreground the view opens onto the blue-green lake, a ch\u00e2teau on the far shore and steep slopes above. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this cool, Alpine subject into your home, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

A painter the landscape did not suit<\/h3>\n

C\u00e9zanne did not write about Annecy with enthusiasm \u2013 in a letter he described it as a place too much like a postcard and too little like the nature he knew. One of his most ordered canvases came of it all the same. Dissatisfaction with the scene evidently forced him to lean even harder on construction.<\/p>\n

A tree as a frame<\/h3>\n

The trunk and branches in the left foreground work as a frame through which we look. This device \u2013 a dark, sharp shape in front that opens a bright distance \u2013 is frequent in C\u00e9zanne; without it the lake would become a mere plane.<\/p>\n

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

A dark tree on the left, the blue-green surface of the water with its reflections in the middle, and on the far shore a building with a tower, behind it steep slopes sunk in blue. The original is painted in oil on canvas, was made in 1896 and is held by the Courtauld Gallery in London.<\/p>\n

The summer of 1896 and a letter from Savoy<\/h3>\n

Lake Annecy came out of a short stay in Savoy in the summer of 1896 \u2013 one of the few working periods C\u00e9zanne spent outside Provence. The place itself did not convince him: in a letter he called it too tidy, an almost picture-postcard nature that did not suit him. The canvas later ended up in the collection of the British industrialist Samuel Courtauld, and since his gift of 1932 it has been publicly accessible in London. That one of his most ordered canvases came out of a subject he did not care for is among the finer contradictions of his work.<\/p>\n

Alpine calm on canvas<\/h3>\n

The reflections on the lake are built from planes that a hand-laid stroke keeps and print blurs. Available in ten sizes or to your own measurements. The cool blue-green scale is calming in a bedroom or an office. Choose the frame with the help of our 3D preview. Among our reproductions of famous paintings<\/strong> you will find C\u00e9zanne\u2019s other water and mountain subjects: Mont Sainte-Victoire<\/a>, L\u2019Estaque<\/a> and Jas de Bouffan, The Pond<\/a>.<\/p>\n