Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan

This painting of an avenue on the grounds of Paul Cezanne’s family estate in southern France in Aix-en-Provence, share common composition and objects; parallel and evenly placed trees, a mountain on the back, and common perspective from the side with the Station of Hodogaya by Hokusai (Minneapolis Institute of Art). Even though there’s no conclude evidence that Cezanne was influenced directly by Hokusai, he might have influenced by Hokusai through his friends; Monet and Duret who were enthusiastic partisans’ painters of Japonisme, or that he might had seen Hokusai’s the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and the Hundred Views of Mount Fuji at the exhibition organized by Bing in 1890 (Berber 113; Lambourne 51). His change of style from the image of reality to the image of pictorials after the exhibition was also pointed out, and the new style is used in this painting (Berber 114).