Born in Provence, Cézanne remained deeply attached to his native region, and found inspiration there for some of his recurrent and emblematic motifs. The two most important were the Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Bay at L'Estaque, a place the artist had known since his childhood. It was there he painted his first seascapes in 1876 and, in the late 1870s, produced watercolours and paintings with viewpoints looking down over the bay, as in this example. In a letter to Pissarro in 1876, Cézanne describes the panoramic landscape before him, and speaks of the "terrifying sun" which
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