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Conservator’s Note

Numerous tack holes in the corners and near the center side edges suggest that Cézanne worked on this watercolor during more than one session. Although much of the graphite is an underdrawing beneath the watercolor, some of the graphite pencil marks around the outline of the trees and house roof cross over watercolor strokes, indicating that Cézanne reworked the watercolor with graphite, reinforcing those contours.

Conservator’s Note

The watercolor was executed on a sketchbook page that has been torn from the binding along its bottom edge. It is thought that Cézanne used his sketchbooks interchangeably over long periods of time, picking them up at random and adding his impressions of the moment. The portability of the pocket-size journals allowed him to carry them around the Louvre or back and forth between Paris and Provence.

Conservator’s Note

The artist first used a black crayon-like instrument, perhaps a lithographic crayon, to sketch in a clear outline of the figure; he then applied thinned oils within the border defined by the black outline.