The present watercolor is a view from Cézanne's atelier at Les Lauves.

Though the catalogue of the 1963 exhibition at the Knoedler
Galleries says that from this spot Cézanne could see the
"characteristic profile" of Mont Sainte-Victoire, such was
by no means the case. From this terrace in front of his
studio, the artist saw to the south the distant mountain
range of the Chaîne de l'Etoile with the Pilon du Roi...
and when he went up to the studio itself, he had a view of
the rooftops of Aix and the tower of the cathedral...In order
to see Sainte-Victoire, the painter had to climb farther up
the heights of Les Lauves (the road was at the left of his
garden) and had to look east over the undulating landscape
that stretched out toward the mountain. (J.Rewald, op.cit.,
p. 250)