La Maison du docteur Gachet

In 1873 Cézanne was living in the village of Auvers, north of Paris, painting side by side with Camille Pissarro, who was older and steadier and teaching him to work straight from the landscape. You can watch Cézanne's earlier heavy, dark manner lightening here into small strokes of daylight. The house he chose to paint belonged to Doctor Paul Gachet, a physician and amateur artist who welcomed the Impressionists and bought their work when almost no one else would. 17 years later the same Doctor Gachet, in the same village, would care for Vincent van Gogh in the last weeks of his life and sit for one of his most famous portraits.