The painting Road at Pontoise belongs to the period of collaboration between Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, as he was drawn toward impressionism. In this artwork, the artist overcomes the heaviness of his early method and his palette becomes lighter, but unlike the work of impressionists, the materiality of the world remains. Cézanne’s temperament sees shapes as dense and deepened. The artist builds his painting with large planes and applies colors in compact strokes. At the same time, the landscape, with its rich hues, is a stable one. Cézanne was not interested in the transitory effects that were so important to impressionists. The master analyzes nature. He strives to create significant, deep, generalized art, to turn impressionism, in his own words, into “something more stable and eternal, like museum art.”