Ambroise Vollard was Paul Cézanne's staunchest promoter. Although Cézanne had exhibited with the Impressionists, by the mid-1890s he was relatively unknown. Vollard found him in the South of France and bought 150 of his paintings, organizing his first solo exhibition in 1895, creating a sensation in the Parisian art world. Vollard insisted that Cézanne contribute to his group print albums. His master printer, Auguste Clot, provided the artist with lithographic transfer paper to draw the primary black lines and then created an impression from these outlines. Cézanne then applied watercolor to the impression to serve as a guide for Clot's production of the four additional color stones. The end product is a color lithograph that serves as an uncanny facsimile of Cézanne's original crayon and watercolor maquette.