Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin

In 1861, Guillaumin joined the Académie Suisse in Paris where he became acquainted with Paul Cézanne, who was twenty-two at the time. The two artists quickly became friends, and traveled outside Paris, specifically Pontoise and Issy-les-Moulineaux, to study the underlying form in nature. They often worked alongside one another, evident in the similarities between the vantage points of their landscape paintings produced during this time. In La Route tournante, “the two friends seem to have set up their easels on an elevated spot, looking down on a house in the right foreground and on a winding road that disappears into distant hills” (John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A catalogue raisonné, vol. I, New York, 1996, p. 255).

Fig 1. Paul Cézanne, La route tournante, circa 1877, oil on canvas, Private Collection