# Mont Sainte-Victoire and Château Noir [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CÉZANNE, Paul]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 66 x 81 cm ## Commentary Cézanne rented a small cottage near Bibémus quarry to the east of Aix to make it easier for him to paint in the open air. He also rented a room in the Château Noir \("black castle"\), an estate halfway to the village of Le Tholonet on the way to Mont Sainte-Victoire, where he could store his painting equipment. The Château Noir was in fact a reddish roughcast neo-Gothic building belonging to a coal merchant. This was the place where Cézanne produced many of his late paintings; surrounded by pine forests, with the ochre-coloured stone of Bibémus quarry nearby and a view of the towering rockface of Mont Sainte-Victoire. The Mont Sainte-Victoire, a massive limestone ridge around a thousand metres high, fascinated Cézanne all his life and it provided an inexhaustible source of new compositions. ## Related artworks - [A Modern Olympia]() - [A Modern Olympia]() - [A Path by the Lake]() - [Afternoon in Naples]() - [Bather]() - [Bathers Beneath a Bridge]() - [Bathers]() - [Bathers]() - [Bathers]() - [Bathers]() - [Bathers]() - [Bathers]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()