The Bridge at Maincy
by CÉZANNE, Paul, Oil on canvas, 59 x 73 cm
The Bridge at Maincy, near Melun, surrounded by slender trees in glowing emerald depths, was one of the first masterpieces of C�zanne’s mature personal style that was to have implications of great consequence for future art. There is an inner dynamic and a dimension of time to the painting, as if it expressed a process of becoming. This derives from the unstrained and unfinished brushwork and from the gently swaying lines that demarcate colour boundaries.