Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan in Winter
by CÉZANNE, Paul, Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
The Jas de Bouffan (House of the Wind), the former summer residence of the Governor of Provence, to the west of Aix, was bought by C�zanne’s father in 1859. This estate provided an unfailing source of peace and tranquillity for C�zanne. He may faithfully depict what he sees, but he orders nature to fit his own compositional rules; the chestnut trees are arranged more neatly in the painting than they are in real life.