Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan

• Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)
• 1885–1886
• Oil on canvas
• Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
• (1975.1.160)

Paul Cézanne painted the landscape of Jas de Bouffan, his family home near Aix-en-Provance. He employed a distinctive composition by viewing the scene through a row of bare trees in the foreground. The vertical tree trunks set against the horizontal line of the hillside create a gridlike structure, while the crisscrossing, meandering branches at the top convey a sense of layered depth.