Forest (Sous Bois at LACMA, 1894

(in the Philadelphia catalog, Cezanne, Abrams, 1996, p. 379)

This is the first painting in which I found the precise ellipse, and why I call the figures "Ghosts in the Forest". I was doubly amazed to find that he used two differently sized ellipses. Each is proportioned to the aspect ratio of the painting, as is the case in every painting I've mapped. The large one is 1/2 the picture's length in width, and the small one is 1/4 the picture's width long. All of the ellipses in his paintings are 1:.618, the Divine Proportion.