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 258
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
1888–90
Alternate titles: Mont Sainte-Victoire; Paysage (Montagne Sainte-Victoire)
Rewald (631): 1888–90; Venturi revised: 1890–95; Venturi (662): 1890–94; Ratcliffe: possibly first half of 1889; Machotka et al: 1888–89
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (65 x 81 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3834, peinture; Ste. Victoire; à droite massif d'arbres, 65 x 81 cm (150 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3336, Paysage. La Montagne Ste Victoire, 65 x 81 cm
Vollard archives: photo no. 123 and 410, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1885–90; and Sainte-Victoire 1885
Private collection
Provenance
Private collection
Exhibition History
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Collection Berggruen, June 16–October 30, 1988, no. 6, ill.
National Gallery, London, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, January–April 21, 1991, no. 19, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire, on extended loan to 1998.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin–Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Picasso und seine Zeit: Die Sammlung Berggruen, 1996–2000, on extended loan from 1998.
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Cézanne in Berlin. 28 Werke aus den Staatlichen Museen und aus Privatbesitz, October 6, 2000–January 14, 2001, no. 14, ill.
Experience Music Project, Seattle, Double Take: From Monet to Lichtenstein, April 2006–January 2007, pp. 12–13, ill.
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief, October 17, 2009–January 24, 2010, no. 35, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, October 10, 2015–January 10, 2016, no. 16, ill. Traveled to: Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., February 6–May 8, 2016; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, July 10–September 18, 2016; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, October 14, 2016–January 16, 2017; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, February 16–May 23, 2017.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 662, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 65.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 100, pl. XXIII (with photograph of the motif, p. 101).
Embiricos, Georges A. "Cézanne et la répétition." Connaissance des Arts, no. 315 (May 1978), pp. 69–70, ill. p. 69.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 209, ill. in color.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 57, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 215, ill.
Ely, Bruno. "La plus haute sommité du département." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 147, fig. 107.
Kendall, Richard. Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery. London: The National Gallery, 1991, pp. 17, 76–77, no. 19, ill.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 113, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 69.
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. 631, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 43, fig. 34, as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Ely, Bruno. "Gardanne, Montbriand and Bellevue." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 156, fig. 5, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (private collection).
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 235; vol. 2, p. 159, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 78.
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. 30, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, with photo of the motif.
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. 71 p. 86.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 113, ill., as Paysage (Montagne Sainte-Victoire).
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 56.
Record last updated November 22, 2024. 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, 1888–90 (FWN 258)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=613 (accessed on November 23, 2024).
