Pool at the Jas de Bouffan by Cezanne in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906)

Title: The Pool at the Jas de Bouffan

Date: late 1880s

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 25 1/2 x 31 7/8 in. (64.8 x 81 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960

Accession Number: 61.101.5

On View

Gallery Label:

During the late 1880s Cézanne painted several pictures of a road bordered with chestnut trees on his family's estate, the Jas de Bouffan. Visible at the right, the road led from the back of the house to the gardens. Near the rail dividing the two areas was a collecting pool and a washing trough (the low stone structures behind the trees).

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