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 235
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin
c.1887
Alternate titles: Arc-Tal mit Ste. Victoire; La Mont Sainte-Victoire au grand pin; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin (vue du Tubet); La Montagne Ste-Victoire; La Sainte Victoire; La Sainte-Victoire; Mont Ste. Victoire; Mt. Sainte Victoire; Paysage au pied de Sainte-Victoire; S. Victoire; Sainte-Victoire; Sainte-Victoire au grand pin; Sainte-Victoire or La Montagne Sainte-Victoire or La Montagne Victoire; Vallée de l'Arc (paysage); Vue de la Montagne Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (599): c.1887; Venturi revised: 1886–87; Venturi (454): 1885–87; Cooper: c.1886–88 and probably summer 1887 or 1887–88 (Burlington); Gowing: c.1887 (Edinburgh); Ratcliffe: after 1885 or possibly 1888
Oil on canvas
26 x 35 3/8 in. (66 x 90 cm)
Signed lower right: P. Cezanne
Vollard archives: photo no. 500, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Aix 1892
Provenance
Exhibition History
Société des Amis des Arts, Aix-en-Provence, France, Salon Aixois, Première exposition, December 1895, as Vallée de l'Arc (paysage), acquired by Gasquet after the exhibition -- check.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, October 5–November 14, 1917, no. 35, ill., as La Montagne Ste-Victoire, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Œuvres de grands maitres du dix-neuvième siècle, May 3–June 3, 1922, no. 10, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885, lent by Josse & Gaston Bernheim-Jeune.
Norwich Castle, Norwich, United Kingdom, Centenary of the Norwich museum. Loan Collection of Pictures Illustrative of the Evolution of Painting from the XVIIth Century to the Present Day, October 24–November 1, 1925, no. 63.
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 6, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Courtauld.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 457, ill. p. 71 in An Illustrated Souvenir ..., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Samuel Courtauld, London; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 283, pl. 141.
1939 Melbourne and traveling possibly
Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia, Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, opening: October 16, 1939, no number. Traveled to: Exhibition Gallery, David Jones', Sidney, Australia, opening: November 20, 1939.City Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, French Art, 1947.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 10, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885-87.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, December 10, 1949–March 5, 1950, no. 307, ill. no. 57 in Book of Illustrations, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by the Home House Trustees, c. 1886-88.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 52, ill. lent by Home House Trustees. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Paintings by Cézanne, August 20–September 18, 1954, no. 39, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin, lent by the Home House Trustees. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, September 29–October 27, 1954.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 9, pl. 41.
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Samuel Courtauld's Collection of French 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, July–August 1976, no. 8.
Takashimaya, Tokyo, The Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, January 12–February 28, 1984, no. 9. Traveled to: Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan, March 8–April 3, 1984; Takashimaya, Osaka, Japan, April 12–May 8, 1984.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Masterpieces: The Courtauld Collection, January 14–March 8, 1987, no. 24, ill. Traveled to: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 4–June 21, 1987; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, July 11–September 27, 1987; Art Institute, Chicago, October 17, 1987–January 3, 1988; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, January 30–April 3, 1988.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, June 17–September 25, 1994, no. 8, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 92, ill. shown in Paris and London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art, October 15, 1999–January 23, 2000, no. 29, fig. 21 p. 51, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 69, ill., fig. 31, p. 61, shown in Washington. only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 4, ill., pp. 84–87 (dated c. 1887), as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, ill., p. x (size: 669 x 922 cm), as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 5, ill.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La Collection Courtauld: le parti de l'impressionnsime, February 20–June 17, 2019. (Exhibition catalogue: Serres et al 2019), no. 38, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
KODE Art Museums, Bergen, Norway, Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Courtauld at KODE Art Museums, July 16–October 10, 2021, no. 4, ill. c. 1887.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 109, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Faure, Élie. "Paul Cézanne." L'Art décoratif 13, no. 157 (October 5, 1911), p. 141, color plate.
Brunius, August. "Kubismens förutsattningar." Konst och Konstnarer, no. 1 (1913), p. 42, ill.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. Cézanne. With contributions by O. Mirbeau, T. Duret, L. Werth, et al. Paris: Editions Hollande, 1914, pl. LIX.
Bernheim-Jeune, ed. L'Art moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois: cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune, poèmes de Henri de Régnier , 2 vols. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1919, pl. 38.
Gasquet, Joachim. "Ce qu'il m'a dit … Le motif." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 262, as Paysage au pied de Sainte-Victoire.
Faure, Élie. Histoire de l'Art. L'Art moderne. Paris: Les Éditions Crès, 1921, ill. p. 403.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 79, pl. p. 78, as La Sainte-Victoire.
Janneau, Guillaume. "Les grandes expositions: maîtres du siècle passé." La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (Paris), vol. 5, no. 5 (May 1922), p. 342, ill. p. 343.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 215, listed.
Sitwell, Osbert. "The Courtauld Collection." Apollo 2, no. 7 (August 1925), p. 111, ill.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 129, pl. [23] hors texte, as La Sainte-Victoire.
Dormoy, Marie. "La Collection Courtauld." L'Amour de l'art 10, nos. 1 et 2 (January et February 1929), ill. p. 15, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Gasquet, Joachim, translated by Elsa Glaser. "Aus dem Leben Cézannes." Kunst und Künstler 27, no. 7 (1929), ill. p. 278.
Charensol, Georges. "Cézanne à la galerie Pigalle." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 124 (February 15, 1930), p. 181, ill.
Dormoy, Marie. "Die Cézanne—Ausstellung im Théâtre Pigalle." Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 6 (1930), p. 248.
P. B. "Cézanne à la galerie Pigalle." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 1 (January 20, 1930), p. 23, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Alexandre, Arsène. "L'Exposition Cézanne à la galerie du Théâtre Pigalle." La Renaissance (Paris; New York), vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1930), p. 75, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Bazin, Germain. "La peinture française à l'exposition de Londres: Le XIXe siècle." L'Amour de l'art 13, no. 1 (January 1932), fig. 115 p. 39, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Blanche, Jacques-Émile. "L'Exposition de l'art français à Londres: le XIXe siècle." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 7, periode 6 (Janvier 1932), p. 92, fig. 18, as La Sainte-Victoire.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 123, ill.
Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art at Home House, 20 Portman Square, London. London: Home House Trustees, 1935, no. 75, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Combe, Jacques. "L'influence de Cézanne." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 19, nos. 5-6 (May–June 1936), p. 30, ill. p. 22, as Vue de la Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1936, fig. 19.
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), p. 17, ill.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Art sacré: revue mensuelle, special number, Cézanne (May 1936), p. 8, fig. 17 p. 21, as Sainte-Victoire, erroneously listed as collection Lecomte.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 454, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
Francastel, Pierre. L'impressionnisme: Les origines de la peinture moderne de Monet à Gauguin. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1937, fig. 18, as Sainte-Victoire, National Gallery.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 82, fig. 3.
Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 32, ill.
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1939, p. 153.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 67 (with photograph of motif).
Bell, Graham. "Invaded Landscape." The Studio (New York) 120, 569 (August 1430), p. 51, ill., as Mont Ste. Victoire.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 125, ill.
Rewald, John. "As Cézanne Recreated Nature." Art News 43, no. 1 (February 15, 1944), p. 10, ill. (with photograph of motif).
Roger-Marx, Claude. Les Impressionnistes. Paris: Hachette, 1956, color pl. II, as Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, Geffroy et Gasquet, suivi de Souvenirs sur Cézanne de Louis Aurenche et de lettres inédites. Paris: Quatre Chemins-Editart, 1959, fig. 7.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 57, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 9 (cropped) and pl. 19 (with comments).
Stokes, Adrian. "Cézanne." In The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes, vol. 2, 1937–58. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978, fig. 100, commentary p. 270.
Harris, Nathaniel. The Art of Cézanne. London: Optimum Books, 1982, p. 68, ill. in color.
Rahn, Dieter. Raumdarstellung und Zeitbezug in der Malerei. Mittenwald: Mäander, 1982, ill.
Hamilton, George Heard. "The Dying of the Light: The Late Work of Degas, Monet, and Cézanne." In Aspects of Monet, edited by John Rewald and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984, p. 234, fig. 90.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 207, ill. in color.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 239, fig. 118.
Ely, Bruno. "La plus haute sommité du département." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 176, fig. 160.
Hoog, Michel. "L'Oeuvre." In Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 201, fig. 181.
Jamme, Christoph. "The Loss of Things: Cézanne, Rilke, Heidegger." Kunst & Museumjournaal 2, no. 1 (1990), p. 37, ill.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 149.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, cover.
Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, pp. 88-9.
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. 599, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
Smith, Paul. "Joachim Gasquet, Virgil and Cézanne's Landscape: My Beloved Golden Age." Apollo (London) 148, no. 439 (October 1998), fig. 4, as La Mont Sainte-Victoire au grand pin, after 1885 or possibly 1888.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's maternal landscape and its gender." In Gendering landscape art, Edited by Steven Adams and Anna Gruetzner Robins. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001, fig. 25.
Tanaka, Hidemichi. "Cézanne and 'Japonisme.'" Artibus et Historiae 22, no. 44 (2001), p. 218, fig. 23, as Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
Boehm, Gottfried. "Paul Cézanne - La Passione per il visibile." In Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni. Milan: Mazzotta, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 53.
Kear, Jonathan. "Leaving L'Estaque. Cézanne's Imagery of Provence in the 1880s." Art on the Line, 2003, fig. 8.
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 224, fig. 108.
Baumann, Felix A., ed. Cézanne—Aufbruch in die Moderne. Essen: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 189, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
Karmel, Pepe. "Die Lehren des Meisters: Cézanne und der Kubismus." In Cézanne: Aufbruch in die Moderne. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, p. 189.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 77, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1935), p. 76, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
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. 168, ill.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 211, ill.
Kropmanns, Peter. Cézanne: Eine Biographie. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2006, ill. between pp. 116 and 117.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's Late Landscapes, or the Prospect of Death." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 61, fig. 3, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
Robbins, Anne. Cézanne in Britain. London: National Gallery, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 94, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin, listed.
Verdi, Richard. "Cézanne in Britain, London." The Burlington Magazine 149, no. 1246 (January 2007), p. 53 mentioned, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 224; vol. 2, p. 153, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 104, fig. 72.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 3.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 202, fig. 140.
Bildende Kunst: Praxis, Theorie, Didaktik. 3, Entstehung und Gestalt des Kunstwerks bei Cézanne und Rodin, Leber, Hermann. Regensburg: Universitätsverlag Regensburg, 2012, p. 22ff, fig. 6 p. 22, as Arc-Tal mit Ste. Victoire, 1885-87.
Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 270, ill.
Marion, Jean Luc. "La Peinture en vérité: La vérité en peinture." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 15, fig. 2.
Chédeville, François. "Le Viaduc dans la plaine de l'Arc III." Société Paul Cézanne (October 12, 2014).
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, listed p. 53.
Cézanne: Pioneer of Modern Art. Kanagawa: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2015. Exhibition catalogue, p. 71, fig. 11.
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. 15, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin (vue du Tubet), with photo of motif, p. 14.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 133, ill.
Eiling, Alexander, Anett Göthe, Astrid Reuter, Bettina Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Höllerer, Juliane Betz and Julia Lachenmann. "Catalog." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 247 fig. 1.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 212, ill.
Salmon, Dimitri. Percy Moore Turner, Précieux conseiller de Samuel & Elizabeth Courtauld. Paris: Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2019, annex list, no. 19, ill.
Cezanne, Jas de Bouffan: art et histoire. Under the scientific direction of Denis Coutagne and François Chédeville. Lyon; Aix-en-Provence: Fage édition; Société Paul Cezanne, 2019, fig. 39 p. 56.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 107, ill., as Sainte-Victoire or La Montagne Sainte-Victoire or La Montagne Victoire, photograph of painting in the Bernheim-Jeune residence at 107 avenue Henri Martin, p. 9.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin, c.1887 (FWN 235)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=582 (accessed on November 23, 2024).