certain to exist between the dropping through empty space of a human body with a rope around its neck and the very place where this tragedy occurred ΓÇô a place that it is human nature to come to see. C┼╜zanneΓÇÖs awareness of this connection is sufficient to explain to me that he set back the building on the right partially to conceal it and eventually to make it appear higher.ΓÇÖ Far from being simply the expression of the atmosphere of a place, the painting marks a turning point in C┼╜zanneΓÇÖs early years. Revealing PissarroΓÇÖs influence in its rendering a range of colours, it comes at the end of C┼╜zanneΓÇÖs ΓÇÿcouillardeΓÇÖ (aggressively youthful) period and is in a series of ΓÇÿobjectiveΓÇÖ studies of nature or landscapes devoid of all human presence.
