Bar ou Loup de Mer Flambé au Fenouil

Down a winding lane just outside Aix-en-Provence lies the house and studio of the Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne. The upstairs studio is maintained in the state in which he worked: easels hold canvases ready to receive the brush, and gathered together on the table on which Cézanne composed the subjects of his paintings are some fruit, a wine bottle, a jug, and a handful of onions – a still life in-waiting.

As you climb the stairs to the studio, you pass an enorm