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 273
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
c.1890
Alternate titles: Der Mont Sainte-Victoire; La montagna Sainte-Victoire; La montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au pin parasol (le bassin au dessus de Montbriand); La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au pin parasol (vue du bassin de Montbriand); La Montagne Sainte-Victoire du pin parasol; La Montagne Ste.-Victoire au pin parasol; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Montagne Sainte-Victoire au pin parasol
Rewald (698): c.1890; Venturi revised: c.1890; Venturi (488): 1886–90; Rivière: 1883; Cooper: 1885; Gowing: 1888–89
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 37 1/2 in. (65 x 95.2 cm) [this larger size from Orsay website]
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 91, pl. XXVII, as La Montagne Ste.-Victoire au pin parasol, lent by Lecomte.
Palais National des Arts, Paris, Chefs-d'oeuvres de l'art français [World's Fair], June–October 1937, no. 257, pl. 88, as La Montagne Ste.-Victoire au pin parasol.
Orangerie, Paris, Hommage à Cézanne, July 2–October 17, 1954, no. 52, pl. XXIII, lent by private collection, Paris.
Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne dans les musées nationaux, July 19–October 14, 1974, extended until October 28, no. 37, ill. in color, as La montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 20, ill.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 37, fig. 247.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 95, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, Italy, L'Oro e l'azzurro: I colori del Sud da Cézanne a Bonnard, October 10, 2003–March 7, 2004, no. 90, ill., as La montagna Sainte-Victoire, 1887-1890.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France, Right Under the Sun, Landscape in Provence: From Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920), May 18–August 21, 2005, no. 33, ill., p. 175, 191 (detail), as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22, 2005–January 8, 2006.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 70, fig. 10, p. 67 (dated c. 1885–90). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Belvedere, Vienna, Wien–Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne und Österreichs Moderne, 1880–1960, October 3, 2007–January 13, 2008, ill., p. 285, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne & beyond, Post-impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay, December 4, 2009–April 5, 2010, no. 34, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Post-impressionnisme: 115 chefs-d’œuvre de la collection du Musée d’Orsay, May 26–August 16, 2010, no. 35, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, September 2010–January 2011, no. 21, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy, La rivoluzione dello sguardo: impressionismo e postimpressionismo dal Musée d'Orsay, March 19–July 24, 2011, no. 73, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea, Au-delà de l'impressionnisme: la naissance de l'art moderne, May 5–July 31, 2014, no. 45, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh... Inspiration Japan, September 27, 2014–January 18, 2015, no. 7, ill., p. 179, as Der Mont Sainte-Victoire, shown in Essen only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zurich, February 20–May 10, 2015.
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie, February 27–July 5, 2020, no. 29, ill. lent by Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 113, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 211, listed.
Kardas. "Chez Paul Cézanne à Aix." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 180 (January 1934), ill. p. [10].
Laprade, Jacques de. "L'exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Beaux-arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 177 (May 22, 1936), ill. p. 2, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire au pin parasol.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 67 p. 180, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1887.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 488, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Huisman, Georges (introduction). "La rétrospective d'art français." L'Amour de l'art 18, no. 5 (May 1937), fig. 92, p. 38, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire du pin parasol.
Bazin, Germain. "Cézanne et la Montagne Sainte-Victoire." L'Amour de l'art 19, no. 10 (December 1938), ill. p. 378.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, fig. 43.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 124, p. 273, ill. (analysis p. 363).
Clogenson, Y.E. Alphonse Daudet: Peintre de la vie de son temps. Paris: J.B. Janin, 1946, p. 195, ill.
Reff, Theodore. "Reproductions and Books in Cézanne's Studio." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 56, periode 6 (November 1960), fig. 2 p. 306.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1225 (February 1971), p. 19, no. 81, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1887-1890.
Crespelle, Jean-Paul. "Cézanne's Magic Mountain." Réalités (November–December 1979), p. 59, ill. (detail).
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 134.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 160.
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. 698, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Smith, Paul. "Joachim Gasquet, Virgil and Cézanne's Landscape: My Beloved Golden Age." Apollo (London) 148, no. 439 (October 1998), fig. 6, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890 (?)
Tanaka, Hidemichi. "Cézanne and 'Japonisme.'" Artibus et Historiae 22, no. 44 (2001), p. 216, fig. 21, as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 115, ill. in b/w.
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. 67, fig. 10, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
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. 43.
Chédeville, François. "Le Viaduc dans la plaine de l'Arc II." Société Paul Cézanne (October 12, 2014), fig. 19.
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 60.
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. 28, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au pin parasol (vue du bassin de Montbriand), with details of painting superimposed over a photo of the motif.
Record last updated May 12, 2023. 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, c.1890 (FWN 273)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=676 (accessed on July 3, 2025).
