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Earthy Anecdotes: Zola’s House at Médan by Paul Cézanne

Earthy Anecdotes
In Banks of the Marne by the French artist Paul Cézanne, a solitary chateau peeks out from the dense foliage with its tower and spire, whitewashed walls, and wooden balcony. Several years earlier the painter had composed a similar canvas in the form of Zola's House at Médan, which currently resides with the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. Otherwise known as...

Banks of the Marne by Paul Cézanne

Art
The Hermitage Amsterdam is currently home to two complementary exhibitions. The first, Impressionism: Sensation and Inspiration, with a tagline explaining that the works on display are 'Highlights from the Hermitage', endeavours to place the Impressionists within their French Nineteenth Century context. It shows Neoclassicists Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme, the Romanticism of Delacroix - who Van Gogh regarded as the supreme...