Rewald dates the present watercolour from the years 1875-80.

In many of his watercolours, Cézanne seems to have been concerned with capturing the effects of reflections and movement in nature. Like the oils with patches of bare canvas, in his late watercolours he increasingly left areas of the paper blank, giving an impression of fullness, space and luminosity.

The Cassirer Gallery was responsible for the tremendous interest that existed in Germany in Cézanne’s paintings and watercolours during the first decades of the 20th century. Paul Cassirer had begun to buy and sell paintings by Cézanne as early as 1904, while the artist was still alive, dealing mostly with Bernheim-Jeune and Vollard. Eva Cassirer, daughter of Alfred, arrived in Basle from Germany in 1938.

约翰·里沃德将这幅水彩的创作时间定为1875年

至1880年。

在许多水彩作品中,塞尚似乎格外关注自然中的倒

影与运动效果。正如他在部分油画中保留未着色的

画布,晚期水彩也越来越多地留出纸张空白,由此

营造出丰盈、开阔而明亮的视觉感受。

20世纪最初几十年,塞尚的油画和水彩在德国引起

广泛兴趣,卡西尔画廊在其中发挥了重要作用。早

在1904年、塞尚仍在世时,保罗·卡西尔就开始购销

他的绘画,主要与伯恩海姆画廊(Bernheim-Jeune)

及画商伏拉尔交易。阿尔弗雷德之女伊娃·卡西尔于

1938年从德国来到巴塞尔。