Paul Cézanne: Church at Montigny-sur-Loing (L'Église de Montigny-sur-Loing), Paul Cézanne, 1898, Oil on canvas, Cézanne depicts a view of Montigny-sur-Loing, a small medieval village situated on a river about fifty miles southeast of Paris. The building looming over the rooftops is the Eglise Saint Pierre et Saint Paul, a catholic parish church built in the 12th century that still stands today. The striking diagonal in the foreground was actually a tree rooted on a small piece of land—a tiny island in the river—in front of the bank on which Cézanne stood; this is known from a 19th-century post

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