Detail of The House with the Cracked Walls by Cezanne in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

The House with the Cracked Walls

Artist: Paul Cézanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence)

Date: 1892–94

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 31 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. (80 x 64.1 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1993, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

Accession Number: 1993.400.2

Gallery label:

Cézanne often painted abandoned sites near his studio outside Aix, but he depicted this house, with its sinister crevice, only once.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/435874