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)
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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 296
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
1892–95
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (et la Bastide Vieille); La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vue de Bellevue; La Vallée de l'Arc; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mountainous landscape; Mt. Ste. Victoire; Paysage montagneux; Sainte-Victoire et Bastide Vieille
Rewald (767): 1892–95; Venturi revised: 1886–87; Venturi (457): 1885–87; Cooper: 1886–87
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Moderne Kunstkring, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst, October 6–November 5, 1911, no. 8 (?), as Paysage montagneux, Hoogendijk collection.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, pp. 136–37, ill. Traveled to: Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993–January 2, 1994; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21–April 3, 1994; Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, April 24–August 16, 1994; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 17–December 31, 1994; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 29–April 1995; Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23–October 22, 1995.
Published References
Riemsdijk, Barthold Willem Floris van. Catalogue of the Pictures, Miniatures, Pastels, Framed Drawings etc. at the Rijks-Museum at Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Roeloffzen-Hübner and Van Santen, 1910, p. 425, no. 688A, as Mountainous landscape.
Catalogue des tableaux, miniatures, pastels, dessins encadrés, etc. du Musée de l'État à Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Roeloffzen-Hübner et Van Santen, 1911, p. 99, no. 688A, as Paysage montagneux.
Gasquet, Joachim. "Ce qu'il m'a dit … Le motif." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 258, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, [photo Rosenberg].
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 139.
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 225, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Watson, Forbes. "The Barnes Foundation, Part I." The Arts 3, no. 1 (January 1923), p. 16, ill.
Ozenfant, Amedée, and Charles Edouard Jeanneret. La Peinture moderne. Paris: Les Éditions Crès, 1924, p. 32.
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, p. 486, ill. p. 236.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 75, fig. 39, pl. XXIX.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 53, 407, 456.
Huyghe, René. "Les origines de la peinture contemporaine: Genèse et position de l'art moderne." L'Amour de l'art 14, no. 1 (January 1933), p. 14, fig. 13 p. 16, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 387, fig. 12 (detail).
Tourrette, Gilles de la. "Paul Cézanne." Art et les Artistes 32 (July 1936), p. 335, ill., as La Vallée de l'Arc, dated circa 1892.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 457, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 62, with photograph of motif.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, frontispiece, list of motifs: no. 81.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 109, ill. p. 228, analysis pp. 355–56.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 124–26, pl. XXXVII (with photograph of the motif).
Bazin, Germain. L'Epoque impressionniste. Paris: P. Tisné, 1947, pl. 65, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1904-06.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 48, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vue de Bellevue, 1885-87.
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 75, pl. XXIX fig. 39, as Mt. Ste. Victoire.
Williams, Forest. "Cézanne and French Phenomenology." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 12, no. 4 (June 1954), p. 482.
De Mazia, Violette. "What to Look for in Art." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 1, no. 2 (Autumn 1970), pl. 3.
Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1972), p. 32, pl. 32.
De Mazia, Violette. "Expression." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1974), pl. 59.
De Mazia, Violette. "The Decorative Aspect in Art." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 6, no. 1 (Spring 1975), p. 30, pl. 52.
De Mazia, Violette. "Three Aspects of Art." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 6, no. 2 (Autumn1975), pp. 47–48, pl. 45.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 1 (Spring 1976), pl. 97.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 2 (Autumn 1976), pp. 16–17, pl. 7.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum – Cont'd: Part III." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 1 (Spring 1977), p. 12, pl. 106.
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd: Part IV." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977), p. 19, pl. 90.
De Mazia, Violette. "The Barnes Foundation: The Display of Its Art Collection." Vistas 2, no. 2 (1981–83), pl. 100.
De Mazia, Violette. "Tradition: An Inquiry – A Few Thoughts." Vistas 3, no. 1 (1984–86), p. 97, pl. 77.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 271–72, fig. 128.
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 31.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 321, ill.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 14, ill.
Heijbroek, J. "Het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst van Willem Steenhoff. Werkelijkheid of utopie?" Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 39 (1991), fig. 26.
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), fig. 95.
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. 767, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Tempel, Benno. "Vader van ons allen: Cézanne en de moderne kunst in Nederland." In Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief. Zwolle: Waanders, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 96, ill. p. 86, comments by Judith Dolkart.
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, ill. p. 62, as Sainte-Victoire et Bastide Vieille.
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. 29, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (et la Bastide Vieille), with photo of the motif (the house from the painting superimposed over the photo).
Challis, Davi. "Moving Mountains: Paris-Based Dealers and the Economics of Translocation." In Pioneers of the Global Art Market, Paris-Based Dealer Networks, 1850–1950. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020, fig. 4.1 and color plate 8.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 22, pp. 138–46, as Mont Sainte-Victoire (catalogue notes by N. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer).
Record last updated November 3, 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, 1892–95 (FWN 296)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=744 (accessed on April 25, 2024).
