Paul Cézanne, now forty-seven, completes Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffan (1885-86; Minneapolis Museum of Art).

In depicting the winter-bare chestnut trees, which line an avenue on the grounds of his family estate at Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne employs multiple viewpoints; this collapses depth, meshing the two parallel rows of trees into a web that seems to exist in one plane.

This characteristic innovation produces a rhythmic synthesis of form in both two and three dimensions.

In April, he finally marries Marie-Hortense Fiquet (Madame Cézanne en bleu, c. 1886, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), his mistress of seventeen years and the mother of his son.

He receives an inheritance following the death of his father six months later.