Alumnus Peter Vint (B.A., 1969) made a bike and boat tour of Provence in 2019, documenting his travels with photographs, a few of which we share here. Along the way he reflected on the great painters of the 19th century who worked in Provence, seeing the colors and settings made famous by the likes of Antoine Jean Gros, Paul Cézanne, and Vincent Van Gogh. He writes:

Here, a country of living history, the sky the royal blue of Louis IX, a little clouded here and there, le mistral (wind) embracing a profoundly green nature, the night covered with stars, the country that surrounded van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Renoir. We made a tour by bike and boat wandering in their world of color, in their eternal palette, in the same places- where history flows to the present…