# The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque, in Post-Impressionism

Paul Cézanne painted this in about 1885, aged about 41. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> From the hills above the village of L’Estaque, the rooftops of tan houses tumble down to the deep blue expanse of the Bay of Marseille, with mountains rising beyond the water.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1885
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 80.2 × 100.6 cm (31 5/8 × 39 5/8 in.); Framed: 107.4 × 127.4 × 10.5 cm (42 1/4 × 50 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.1116
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Cézanne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-cezanne), French, 1839–1906

Cézanne divided his life between Paris and his native Aix-en-Provence. Encouraged by his schoolfriend Émile Zola and later by Pissarro, with whom he painted at Pontoise and Auvers in the 1870s, he showed at the first and third Impressionist exhibitions.

13 works in the collection.

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