The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 185
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Montbriand
1882–85
Alternate titles: Blick in das Arc-Tal mit Mont Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et le viaduc; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire von Bellevue aus gesehen; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue au-dessus de Montbriand; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bellevue; Landscape – Paysage du Midi; Le Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley; Montagne Sainte-Victoire Seen from Montbriand; Sainte Victoire
Rewald (511): 1882–85; Venturi revised: 1886–87; Venturi (452): 1885–87; Ratcliffe: after 1885
Oil on canvas
25 3/4 x 32 1/8 in. (65.4 x 81.6 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3753, huile; aqueduc avec au fond Ste. Victoire; à gauche massif de pins, au milieu pin parasol, 65 x 81 cm (250 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The H.O. Havemeyer Collection, March 10–November 2, 1930, no. 6.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Landscape Painting, May 14–September 30, 1934, no. 54.
New York World's Fair, New York, Masterpieces of Art, May–October 1940, no. 342, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire, lent by Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 53, ill., p. 51, lent by Metropolitan Museum. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne: Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 4–August 4, 1953, no. 14, ill. p. [14], lent by Metropolitan Museum. Traveled to: Musée Masséna, Nice, France, August 8–September 12, 1953; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France, September 15–October 18, 1953.
National Pinakothiki and Alexander Soutzos Museum, Greece, Treasures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York: Memories and Revivals of the Classical Spirit, 1979, no. 102, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1885-87.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 4, ill.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 38, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 89, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 67, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 36, fig. 239, pp. 226, 339–40, as Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 17–May 13, 2007; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, June 19–September 16, 2007.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 199, p. 504, as Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley.
Published References
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. "The Havemeyer Pictures." The Arts 16, no. 7 (March 1930), p. 469, ill.
Wehle, Harry B. "The Exhibition of the H.O. Havemeyer Collection." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 25, no. 3 (March 1930), p. 58 (mentioned).
"Au Metropolitan Museum: La collection Havemeyer." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 4 (April 20, 1930), p. 8 (listed), ill. p. 7, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire.
H.O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculpture and Object of Art. Portland, Me.: [privately published], 1931, pp. 56f, as Landscape – Paysage du Midi.
Vollard, Ambroise. Recollections of a Picture Dealer. Translated by Violet M. MacDonald. New York: Dover Publications, 1936, p. 142.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 452, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris: Albin Michel, 1937, ill. opp. p. 54.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 154.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 85.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 95, listed.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "383 MASTERPIECES OF ART: The World's Fair Exhibition of Paintings of Four Centuries Loaned from American Public and Private Collections." Art News Annual 1940 vol. 38 (Jan. 1, 1940), p. 43, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 39, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et le viaduc, 1885-87.
Loran, Erle. "Cézanne in 1952." Quarterly (Art Institute of Chicago) 46, no. 1 (February 1, 1952), pp. 10–11, ill.
Louchheim, Aline Bernstein. "Cezanne: Link in Art." The New York Times (New York) (April 6, 1952), p. 23, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Storey, Benjamin. "Retrospettiva Cézanne." Emporium 115, no. 689 (May 1952), p. 198, ill.
Berenson, Bernard. Seeing and Knowing. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1953, pl. 88.
Hofmann, Werner. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Munich, Vienna, Basel: Kurt Desch, 1953, pl. 12, as Blick in das Arc-Tal mit Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1885-1887.
Rousseau, Théodore, Jr. Paul Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1953, pl. 12.
Biederman, Charles. The New Cézanne. Winona, MN: Leicht Press, 1958, pls. 11 and 12 (diagram).
H. O. Havemeyer Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958, p. 13, no. 62, ill.
Mathey, François. Les Impressionnistes et leur temps. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1959, p. 121, ill., as Sainte Victoire.
Sterling, Charles, and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 107–08.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 154.
Salinger, Margaretta. "Windows Open to Nature." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 27, no. 1 (Summer 1968), ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 18 (with comments).
Embiricos, Georges A. "Cézanne et la répétition." Connaissance des Arts, no. 315 (May 1978), pp. 69–70, ill. p. 68.
Baetjer, Katherine. European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, p. 26, ill. p. 616.
Hibbard, Howard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1980, fig. 774.
Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 25.
Shiff, Richard. Cézanne and the end of Impressionism: a study of the theory, technique, and a critical evaluation of modern art. Chicago; London: The Univesity of Chicago Press, 1984, pp. 121, 216-218, fig. 28, 55, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1885.
Moffett, Charles S. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985, pp. 192–93, ill.
Weitzenhoffer, Frances. The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, pp. 142–43, pl. 108.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 125, fig. 70.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Review: Cézanne and Poussin. Edinburgh." The Burlington Magazine 132, no. 1051 (October 1990), ill. p. 733, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Jamme, Christoph. "The Loss of Things: Cézanne, Rilke, Heidegger." Kunst & Museumjournaal 2, no. 1 (1990), p. 39, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 115, fig. 65.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 45, ill.
Shiff, Richard. "Cézanne's Physicality: The Politics of Touch." In The Language of Art History, edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 161, fig. 8.6
Wold, Gretchen. "Appendix." In Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, no. 74, ill.
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne & Poussin: A Symposium. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993, pl. 15.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 107, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 30-31 (cropped), c. 1880.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 161.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 129, fig. 113, with photographs of the motif, figs. 111 and 112, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bellevue, dated c. 1888.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 511, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bellevue.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 29, fig. 20, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire Seen from Montbriand.
Smith, Paul. "Joachim Gasquet, Virgil and Cézanne's Landscape: My Beloved Golden Age." Apollo (London) 148, no. 439 (October 1998), fig. 3, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bellevue, after 1885.
Schwarz, Birgit. "Landscapes." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 304, fig. 1, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bellevue.
Tanaka, Hidemichi. "Cézanne and 'Japonisme.'" Artibus et Historiae 22, no. 44 (2001), p. 214, fig. 19, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bellevue.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 150, fig. 4.1, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bellevue.
Graphische Sammlung Albertina. Goya bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski. Schröder et al.. Vienna: Albertina, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 244, mentioned under cat. no. 103, fig. 1, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire von Bellevue aus gesehen.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 75, ill. with photos of motif (c. 1935 and c. 1976), p. 74, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bellevue.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Sammler. Von Zola bis Annenberg." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel,
Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 175, ill.
Sachs, Katherine. "Cézanne and Marden: The Almost Perfect Painting." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 504, pl. 199, as Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 176, fig. 118.
Coutagne, Denis. "Il paesaggio in Cézanne." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, fig. 31.
Rishel, Joseph J. "Cézanne, Virgil, Poussin." In Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 169, fig. 163, as Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 49, fig. 52.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 121, fig. 39c, with black and white and color photos of the motif, figs. 39a and 39b, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue au-dessus de Montbriand, dated after 1885.
Chédeville, François. "Le viaduc dans la plaine de l'Arc I." Société Paul Cézanne (October 12, 2014), as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue au-dessus de Montbriand.
Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identiy in the Nineteenth-century France. London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2015, p. 168, fig. 1 p. 6, as Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley.
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 42.
Coutagne, Denis. "La sensation de la nature chez Cézanne." In Sensations de nature: de Courbet à Hartung. Paris: Lienart éditions, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1, c. 1882-1885.
Bonfort, ed., Didier. Dans les pas de P. Cezanne, Valcros - Bellevue - Montbriand. Didier Bonfort, ed.. Aix-en-provence: Sauvegarde des paysages de Cezanne, February 2016, p. 6, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Montbriand, with photo of motif.
Coutagne, Denis. "Chemin-Cezanne." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 23, fig. 5.
Coutagne, Denis. "'Rome n'est plus dans Dome.'" In Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 113, fig. 5.
Causey, Faya. "Tectonic Cezanne." In Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 1.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 109.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 143, fig. 3, as Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley.
Record last updated January 18, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Montbriand, 1882–85 (FWN 185)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=500 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
