Mont Sainte-Victoire, painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1889, lifts the eye toward the great limestone ridge rising above the rolling Provençal countryside, with pale rooftops and groves of trees gathered at its base. The brushwork is broken and feathered, the palette built on warm ochres, soft greens, and the chalky blues and whites of the mountain's distinctive stone. Sainte-Victoire towers over the landscape east of Aix-en-Provence in southern France and offered the Impressionists one of the most arresting natural motifs in the country. The picture distills the clear southern light and a single famous silhouette into a luminous Impressionist landscape.