Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue

{{Short description|Painting by Paul Cézanne}}

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| image_file=Paul Cezanne La Montagne Saint Victoire Barnes.jpg

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| title=Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue

| artist=Paul Cézanne

| year=c. 1895

| medium=Oil on canvas

| height_metric=73

| width_metric=92

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| imperial_unit=in

| city=Pennsylvania

| museum=Barnes Foundation

| movement = Post Impressionism

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Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue is a landscape painting dating from around 1886, by the French artist Paul Cézanne. The subject of the painting is the Montagne Sainte-Victoire in Provence in southern France. Cézanne spent a lot of time in Aix-en-Provence at the time, and developed a special relationship with the landscape. This particular mountain, that stood out in the surrounding landscape, he could see from his house, and he painted it in on numerous occasions.Becks-Malorny, p. 67.

Moreover, Cézanne depicted the railway bridge on the Aix-Marseille line at the Arc River Valley in the center on the right side of this picture.{{Cite web|url=http://tomokiakimaru.web.fc2.com/cezanne_and_the_steam_railway_3.html|title=Cézanne and the Steam Railway (3): His Railway Subjects in Aix-en-Provence|website=Tomoki Akimaru (Art Historian)|accessdate=November 10, 2022}}

The painting shows clearly Cézanne's project of rendering order and clarity to natural scenes, without giving up the optical realism of Impressionism.Gombrich, pp. 538-41. Both the light and the colours of the painting give the impression of a pattern that is not imposed on nature, but is there naturally.