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French Painting
Painting (Scène extérieure)
Dimensions : 62 cm x 51 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Date : between 1899 and 1904
Area related : France
Acquisition : Amy McCormick Memorial Collection (1942)
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This is one of a group of smaller canvases painted by Cézanne at the same time as his three monumental paintings of bathers, the most famous of which is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Although sharing certain details of setting and pose with the Philadelphia canvas, this work has an absolutely different character and was not conceived as a study for the larger painting. Where Cézanne sought to give the bathers in the larger composition massive volume and geometric forms, here he manage to evoke a sense of weightlessness and movement by applying his paint as though it were watercolor, with plenty of white primed canvas showing through.
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Les Peintres impressionnistes en 1877 par Emile Zola 
Emile Zola fera le compte-rendu de l'Exposition consacrée aux Peintres impressionnistes dans ses Notes Parisiennes du 19 avril 1877.
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