View of Auvers-sur-Oise
View of Auvers-sur-Oise is the common English name for a Paul Cézanne painting known by various French names, usually Paysage d'Auvers-sur-Oise, or in the artist's "catalogue raisonné", Groupe de maisons, paysage d'île de France. It is believed to have been painted in 1879–80, several years after Cézanne's residence in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village northwest of Paris. The painting depicts a landscape of Northern France; the exact location has not been determined.

Victor Chocquet bought the painting from the artist, and it remained in his family's collection until the early 20th century. Later it came into the possession of Bruno Cassirer, who loaned it to the Kunsthaus Zürich. It was inherited by Cassirer's daughter Sophie, and after her death in 1979 it was accepted in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University.

Shortly after midnight on New Year's Day 2000, guards at the Ashmolean, responding to a fire alarm, discovered the painting was missing. Police believe the thief or thieves used a smoke bomb and that night's millennium celebrations as a cover for the theft of the museum's only Cézanne and the only painting taken. It has not been recovered.
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Paul Cézanne
PER
Q1050259
catalogue raisonné
Concept
Q212406
Auvers-sur-Oise
LOC
Q90
Paris
LOC
Q107425
landscape
Concept
Q142
France
LOC
Q2522240
Victor Chocquet
PER
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Bruno Cassirer
PER
Q685038
Kunsthaus Zürich
LOC
Q555829
accepted in lieu
Concept
Q628413
inheritance tax
Concept
Q636400
Ashmolean Museum
LOC
Q34433
Oxford University
ORG
Q196627
New Year's Day
Concept
Q967352
smoke bomb
Concept
Q24905949
millennium celebrations
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Q63759194
View of Auvers-sur-Oise
MEDIA
1879-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1879
DATE
1979-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1979
DATE
2000-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2000
DATE
+80^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
80
NUMBER
+20^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
20
NUMBER
creator
depicts
inception
collection
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