{"id":84556,"date":"2021-09-02T18:16:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/uncategorized\/woods-with-millstone\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:54:14","slug":"woods-with-millstone","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/svetslik.si\/en\/paul-cezanne\/woods-with-millstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul C\u00e9zanne \u2013 Woods with Millstone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woods with Millstone \u2013 a stone in the middle of the forest<\/h2>\n

In the park of the Ch\u00e2teau Noir estate an abandoned millstone lies among the trees, with a few worked blocks of stone beside it. C\u00e9zanne painted them exactly as they were: without a story, as geometric shapes the forest had slowly grown over. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this unusual subject into your home, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

A circle among nothing but diagonals<\/h3>\n

Almost everything on this canvas is slanted \u2013 trunks, branches, planes of shadow. The one clear, regular shape is the round millstone in the lower left corner. C\u00e9zanne did not set it at the centre but at the edge, where it works as a counterweight to the whole restless mesh.<\/p>\n

A forest without idyll<\/h3>\n

This is not a friendly wood. There is no path, no figure, no vista \u2013 the scene is closed, dense and a little sombre. In subjects like this C\u00e9zanne was not interested in atmosphere but in the question of how to paint a space in which there is nothing to measure distance by.<\/p>\n

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

Among thin, slanting trunks, rocks and worked blocks of stone pile up in the foreground, and a large round millstone lies among them. Above, the foliage closes into a dark roof. The original is painted in oil on canvas and by the collection\u2019s record measures about 91.7 \u00d7 73.4 cm; it was made at the end of the 19th century.<\/p>\n

A dense wood for a study<\/h3>\n

This subject is made of nothing but diagonals and one single round shape; we paint it by hand so that the proportions stay alive, and never as a print. Ten sizes or a size to your measurements. The dark green-brown scale suits a library or a study. Try the frame with a realistic 3D preview. Among our reproductions of famous paintings<\/strong> you will find C\u00e9zanne\u2019s other woodland and rock subjects: Rocks and Branches at Bib\u00e9mus<\/a>, Ch\u00e2teau Noir<\/a> and Bend in Forest Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n