Cézanne was discovered later on than his contemporaries; it would not be until 1895 and the retrospective organized by Ambroise Vollard that the general public would finally take an interest in his works.
Without Cézanne, the way we look at Provence and Montagne Sainte-Victoire would not be the same. His life was spent between Paris, where he frequented the Académie Suisse, and the city of his birth, Aix-en-Provence. Cézanne was discovered later on than his contemporaries; it would not be until 1895 and the retrospective organized by Ambroise Vollard that the general public would finally take an interest in his works.