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The uphill road
(La Route montante)
(1881)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
61.4 × 74.3 cm (canvas)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1938
© Public Domain
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Paul Cézanne painted this work in May 1881, when he was staying in Pontoise, near his friend and mentor Camille Pissarro. The uphill road was one of a series of works showing the small villages of the area set in their natural surroundings, subject matter that attracted the artist less for its picturesque qualities than for the challenge of representing the geometric relationships between landscape and buildings.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
543-4
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Cityscapes Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
dirt roads France (nation) hills trees villages
Provenance
With Ambroise Vollard (dealer), Paris; from whom acquired by Egisto Fabbri (1866–1933); his collection, Florence, until 1928; sold to Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1928; by whom sold to Wildenstein (dealer), New York; collection of Harry Stevenson Southam (1875–1954), Ottawa, before 1937; with Wildenstein (dealer), New York and London, by 1937; from where purchased, on the advice of Sir Sydney Cockerell, for the Felton Bequest, 1937; arrived Melbourne 1938.