Where did Paul Cézanne grow up and live?

📍Jas de Bouffan, Route des Milles, 13090 Aix-en-Provence, France

1839 – 1906

“I was born Paul Cézanne on the 19th of January 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, the son of a banker. Aix was my home and my subject for life — the Sainte-Victoire mountain that I painted over sixty times, the quarry of Bibémus, the Jas de Bouffan estate. I went to Paris repeatedly and returned repeatedly. I worked alone in Aix in my final decades, building toward a vision of nature's underlying structure that Picasso and Braque took as their starting point. I died in Aix in 1906 after collapsing in the field during a painting session.”

👍 LovedThe Provence landscape and its light — the Sainte-Victoire mountain painted with obsessive devotion. The Jas de Bouffan studio. The solitude that the later work required.

👎 DislikedThe critical hostility that lasted most of my career. The estrangement from Zola. The difficulty of translating what I saw into paint.

Map showing where Paul Cézanne lived — Jas de Bouffan, Route des Milles, 13090 Aix-en-Provence, France

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Paul Cézanne's home at Jas de Bouffan, Route des Milles, 13090 Aix-en-Provence, France

📍 Street view today

Sources: Rewald, J. Cézanne: A Biography (1986), Abrams; Shiff, R. Cézanne and the End of Impressionism (1984), University of Chicago Press