The House with the Cracked Walls

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Artist: Paul Cézanne
Date: 1892–94
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 31 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. (80 x 64.1 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Faded Indigo · Blue family · #626E89 · 26%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #A4976F · 24%

Blue Spruce Cloth · Teal family · #39545C · 12%

Pine Needle · Green family · #53664A · 9%

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Blue Spruce Cloth · Teal family · #061F1D · 4%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #B2904C · 4%

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Clay Tablet · Brown family · #8F5F52 · <1%

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Indigo Banner · Blue family · #3A5187 · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #AEB5C6 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1993, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

8 tags

Landscapes Both · 99%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art lists Landscapes as a subject, and the image shows a house embedded in wooded, rocky, sloping terrain beneath an open sky.

Post-Impressionism Interpretive · 80%

The work’s late nineteenth-century date, known artist attribution, and visibly constructive, non-naturalistic brushwork are consistent with a Post-Impressionist reading; the supplied museum style field does not specify a movement.

Cracked Both · 99%

The title identifies cracked walls, and prominent dark fissures are visibly represented across the house’s facade and lower wall.
Earth Tones Visual · 92%

Ochers, yellow-browns, muted greens, pale stone colors, and subdued reddish roof elements dominate the palette, balanced by blue-violet passages in the sky and shadows.

Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

The Metropolitan Museum of Art records the medium as oil on canvas.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 88%

The image shows clearly visible, directional brushwork across the sky, vegetation, architecture, and rocks rather than uniformly smooth modeling.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The canonical museum metadata dates the work to 1892–94, placing it within the nineteenth century.

French Art Metadata · 98%

The artist display identifies Paul Cézanne as French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence.

Paul Cézanne. The House with the Cracked Walls. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.