Catalogue entry

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FWN 315

La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus

c.1897

Alternate titles: La Montagne rocheuse; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des carrières de Bibémus; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vue de Bibémus; La Montagne Ste. Victoire vue de la carrière de Bibémus; La Sainte-Victoire; Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu de la carrière de Bibémus; Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus Quarry; Mont Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus; Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Montagne Sainte-Victoire seen from Bibémus; Sainte-Victoire seen from Bibemus

Rewald (837): c.1897; Venturi revised: 1895–99; Venturi (766): 1898–1900; Ratcliffe: between 1895 and 1899; Reff: 1898–99

Oil on canvas

25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm)

Vollard A stockbook: no. 3479, huile; au 1r plan des blocs de rochers rouges sur lesquels poussent des arbustes vertes, au fond la montagne Ste Victoire sur un ciel gris bleu, 65 x 81 cm (200 frs)

Vollard archives: photo no. 235

The Baltimore Museum of Art (The Cone Collection)

Keywords

Locales
Southern France:
- Bibémus »
Landscape
Natural motifs:
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire »
- pine tree / pin »
- rock(s) / rocher(s) »
- tree(s) / arbre(s) »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Maurice Gangnat, Paris;

Gangnat Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 25, 1925, no. 162, ill.

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (June 25, 1925)

Dr. Claribel Cone, Baltimore (July 2, 1925);

The Baltimore Museum of Art (1950)

Exhibition History

1907a Paris

Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 39, as La Montagne rocheuse, lent by Gangnat.

1949 Baltimore

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Selections from the Cone Collection, 1949.

1950–51a Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Philadelphia, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Masterpieces of Painting, November 4, 1950–February 11, 1951, no. 86, ill., as Sainte-Victoire seen from Bibemus, lent by Baltimore.

1951 Baltimore

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland, November–December 1951, no. 151, ill.

1952 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 108, ill. lent by Baltimore. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.

1955a Paris

Orangerie, Paris, De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections américaines, April 20–July 5, 1955, no. 4, pl. 68, lent by Baltimore.

1959e New York

Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 49, ill. lent by Baltimore.

1963 Rotterdam

Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Franse landschappen van Cézanne tot heden [Le paysage français à nos jours], October 4–November 17, 1963, no. 27, pl. 3, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus, c. 1898-1900, lent by The Baltimore Museum of Art.

1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling

Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 27. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.

1977–78 New York and traveling

The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 12, pl. 37. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).

1978a Paris

Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 38, ill.

1995–96 Paris and traveling

Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 175, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.

2000–2002 Baltimore and traveling

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, The Triumph of French Painting, March 12–July 16, 2000, no. 44, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus Quarry (p. 32 photograph, Dec. 1930, of Claribel Clone's Apartment, The Marlborough Apartments, with Cezanne's painting hanging). Traveled to: The Philbrook Musuem of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, August 13–November 26, 2000; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, January 6–March 11, 2001; Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 30–September 23, 2001; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, November 3, 2001–January 6, 2002.

2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 88, ill. shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.

2009 Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 86, p. 272, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus.

2009–10 Montclair and traveling

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, Cézanne and American Modernism, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010, no. 16, ill., p. 158, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus. Traveled to: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, June 26–September 26, 2010.

2019d Paris

Centre Pompidou, Paris, Préhistoire: une énigme moderne, May 8–September 16, 2019, listed p. 288, ill. p. 22, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des carrières de Bibémus, 1898-1900.

2020 Princeton and traveling

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, no. 12, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire seen from Bibémus, dated 1895–1900, shown in Princeton only; catalogue notes by John Elderfield and Ariel Kline. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).

2022–23 Chicago and traveling

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 120, ill. c. 1895–99. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.

Published References

Charensol 1925

Charensol, Georges. "La vente Gagnat." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 14 (July 15, 1925), p. 27, as La Sainte-Victoire.

Werth 1925

Werth, Leon. "La collection Gangnat." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 2 (February 1925), ill. p. 55, as La Sainte-Victoire.

Meier-Graefe 1925b

Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Die Sammlung Gangnat." Kunst und Künstler 23, no. 9 (1925), ill. p. 358.

Loran 1930

Johnson, Erle Loran. "Cézanne's Country." The Arts 16, no. 8 (April 1930), p. 529.

Waldemar-George 1931

Waldemar-George. "The Twilight of a God." Apollo 14 (August 1931), fig. IV.

Faure 1936

Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 51.

Raynal 1936

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1936, pl. LIII p. 82.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 766, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vue de Bibémus.

Schenck 1937

Schenck, Edgar. "Girl with Her Doll." Bulletin of the Honolulu Academy of Arts 5, no. 1 (March 1937), fig. 6.

Rewald 1937a

Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 55, as ...paysage peint à la Carrière Bibémus ...

Goldwater 1938

Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 150, ill.

Novotny 1938

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 34, fig. 15 and cover.

Zervos 1938

Zervos, Christian. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'art, 1938, p. 40, ill.

Loran 1943

Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 61–65, pl. X (with composite photograph of the motif).

Rewald 1944

Rewald, John. "As Cézanne Recreated Nature." Art News 43, no. 1 (February 15, 1944), p. 11, ill.

Rewald 1946

Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, ill. opp. p. 414.

Brian 1950

Brian, D. "The Baltimore Museum's Cone Collection: A Pointed Star." Art Digest 24 (January 15, 1950), cover, ill.

Guerry 1950

Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, fig. 22.

Schapiro 1952a

Schapiro, Meyer. Cézanne. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1952, pp. 110–11, ill.

Raynal 1954

Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 104, ill.

The Baltimore Museum of Art 1955

Cone collection: a handbook with a catalogue of paintings and sculpture. Baltimore, [1955], p. 27, no. 11, ill. on cover, as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus Quarry, c. 1898-1900.

Badt 1956

Badt, Kurt. Die Kunst Cézannes. Munich: Prestel, 1956, pl. 29.

Erpel 1958

Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1958, p. 45.

Hofmann 1960

Hofmann, Werner. Das irdische Paradies. Munich: Prestel, 1960, pl. XII.

Rewald 1961

Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 559, ill.

Taillandier 1961

Taillander, Yvon. P. Cézanne. Milan: Antonio Vallardi, 1961, p. 75.

Pollack 1962

Pollack, Barbara. The Collectors: Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962, p. 171, ill. (shows painting in Claribel's sitting room).

Haftmann 1965b

Haftmann, Werner. Malerei im 20. Jahrhundert: eine Bild-Enzyklopädie. Munich: Prestel, 1965, listed p. 405, fig. 5 p. 21, as La Montagne Ste. Victoire vue de la carrière de Bibémus, 1898-1900.

The Baltimore Museum of Art 1967

The Baltimore Museum of Art. Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings in the Cone Collection. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, no. 11, ill. p. 19.

Murphy 1968

Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 87.

D'Harnoncourt 1971

D'Harnoncourt, Anne. "The Necessary Cézanne." Art Gallery 14, no. 6 (April 1971), p. 39, ill.

Schapiro 1973

Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, p. 61 and pl. 42, with comments.

Elgar 1975

Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 110.

Rewald 1977a

Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Final Decade." Horizon (October 1977), p. 42, ill.

Embiricos 1978

Embiricos, Georges A. "Cézanne et la répétition." Connaissance des Arts, no. 315 (May 1978), p. 70, ill.

Gordon 1978

Gordon, Donald E. "The Expressionist Cézanne." Artforum 16, no. 7 (March 1978), p. 34, ill.

Plazy 1981

Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne. Fribourg: Editions Medea, 1981, cover, p. 140.

Müller 1982

Müller, Joseph-Emile. Cézanne. Translated by Jane Brenton. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1982, pl. 27.

Richardson 1985

Richardson, Brenda. Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, p. 175, ill. p. 111.

Rewald 1986b

Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 246, ill.

Kendall 1988

Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 275, ill.

Düchting 1989

Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 217, ill.

Coutagne 1990c

Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 119, fig. 71.

Verdi 1992

Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 186, fig. 164.

Wattenmaker et al 1993

Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 158, fig. 2.

Coutagne 1995

Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne en Provence. Paris: Editions Assouline, 1995.

Lartigue 1995

Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 127, ill.

Coutagne 1995b

Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 36-37.

Coutagne et al. 1996

Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 144.

Krumrine 1996

Krumrine, Mary Louise. "Paris and London: Cézanne." The Burlington Magazine 138, no. 1117 (April 1996), fig. 46 p. 265, as Mont Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus.

Machotka 1996

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 99, fig. 67, with photographs of the motif, p. 98, figs. 65 and 66, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu de la carrière de Bibémus.

Rewald 1996

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. 837, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus.

Smith 1996

Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 59, fig. 49, as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus Quarry.

Lewis 2000

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 2000, p. 300, fig. 187.

Coutagne 2002

Coutagne, Denis. "The Major Works in the Lauves Studio." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 32, ill. in color.

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2003

Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 174, fig. 4.29, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus.

Keyes 2003

Keyes, George S. "Reconsideration of Late Variants of Cézanne's 'Theme of Mont Sainte-Victoire.'" Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts vol. 77, no. 1/2 (2003), p. 35, fig. 3.

Société Paul Cézanne 2005

Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 89, ill. with photos of motif (c. 1935 and 1962), p. 88, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus.

Farber 2006

Farber, Jules B. Autour de Cézanne. Sommières: Romain Pages, 2006, p. 43, ill. in color.

Riley 2006

Riley, Bridget. "Cézanne in Provence." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), pp. 627-28, fig. 54, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire seen from Bibémus.

Machotka 2008

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 316; vol. 2, p. 214, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus.

Van Look 2008

Van Look, Hans-Günther. Sehrevolte der Scheinung: Cézanne am Mont Sainte-Victoire. Munich: Verlag Karl Alber GmbH Freiburg, 2008, p. 1 of illustrations.

Golding 2009

Golding, John. "Cézanne, Braque and Pictorial Space." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009, p. 272, pl. 86, as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus Quarry.

Rothkopf 2010

Rothkopf, Katherine. "The Cone Sisters: Discovering Cézanne and Modern Art." In Cézanne and American Modernism, by Gail Stavitsky. Seattle: Marquand Books, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 90, pl. 16 (detail).

Novotny 2011

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. 15, cover.

Machotka 2011a

Machotka, Pavel. "Des paysages du nord aux premiers pas du cubisme." In Cézanne et Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Rmn-Grand Palais, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 197, fig. 114, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus.

Coutagne 2011d

Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, p. 57, fig. 35.

Freudenberg 2012

Freudenberg, Inken. "'And the picture, once left, torments us and pursues us': Cézanne and Delacroix." In Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, p. 61, fig. 29, as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus Quarry.

Cézanne 2013

Cézanne, Paul. The Letters of Paul Cézanne. Edited and translated by Alex Danchev. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson; Getty Publications, 2013, p. 283, ill.

Colrat 2013

Colrat, Jean. Cézanne: Joindre les mains errantes de la nature. Paris-Sorbonne: PUPS, 2013, p. 128, pl. 36.

Machotka 2014

Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 167, fig. 61s, with black and white and color photos of motif, p. 167, figs. 61a and 61b, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus.

Nagaï 2016

Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 136, ill.

Lobstein 2017a

Lobstein, Dominique. "Biographie." In Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 359, ill.

Coutagne 2020

Coutagne, Denis. "'Rome n'est plus dans Dome.'" In Cezanne et les Maîtres, rêve d'Italie. Vanves: Editions Hazan, 2020. Exhibition catalogue, p. 111, fig. 4.

Dauberville 2020

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 114, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire.

Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021

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. 145, fig. 5, as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus Quarry.

Clark 2022

Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pls. 54, 103 (detail).

Nagaï 2022

Nagaï, Takanori. "L'idée de l'anti-modernisation social chez Cézanne." Bulletin of Kyoto Institute of Technology 14 (February 2022), fig. 46.

Nagaï 2022a

Nagaï, Takanori. Truth in Panting: The Meaning of Cezanne's Practices for Modernizing Society. Tokyo: Sangesha Publishers Inc., 2022, pl. 10.

Smith 2023

Smith, Paul. "Looking slowly with Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 165 (April 2023), fig. 15.

La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue de Bibémus, c.1897 (FWN 315). Composite photograph of motif.
Courtesy John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.

Composite photograph of motif. Courtesy John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.

Photo: Erle Loran

Site identified by Erle Loran.

Record last updated January 5, 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 Bibémus, c.1897 (FWN 315)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=812 (accessed on April 20, 2024).