The House of Dr. Gachet in Auvers-sur-Oise

Paul Cézanne's 1872 painting of Dr. Gachet's house in Auvers-sur-Oise was made during the period when Cézanne was working alongside Pissarro in the Pontoise-Auvers area, absorbing the lessons of Impressionist painting while beginning to develop his own distinctive approach. Dr. Gachet — the physician who would later care for Van Gogh in his final months — was a significant patron and friend of the Impressionists, and his house at Auvers was a gathering place for artists. Cézanne's painting of the house is an early document of the Auvers milieu that would later be indelibly associated with Van Gogh's last works.

The painting shows Cézanne in a transitional moment, combining the Impressionist attention to outdoor light and atmospheric conditions with his own emerging preference for structural clarity and geometric organization of space.