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 348
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
1900–02
Alternate titles: Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus; Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Montaña Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (901): 1900–02; Venturi revised: 1890–95; Venturi (661): 1890–94; Reff: c.1897 (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
21 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (54.6 x 64.8 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Corot to Cézanne, June 1936, no. 5, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1892, From a private collection, Paris; tentative identifiation.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 19th and 20th Century French Paintings: The Maitland Gift and Related Pictures, 1963, no number, ill., p. 30.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 80, ill.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 40, fig. 184.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 60, ill.
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany, Cézanne Gemälde, January 16–May 2, 1993, no. 89, ill.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 17, ill., pp. 64–65 (dated c. 1900).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 72, ill., (dated c. 1890–95). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
National Gallery, London, Cézanne in Britain, October 4, 2006–January 7, 2007, no. 37, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 117, ill.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 38, ill.
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany, Cézanne - Metamorphosen, October 28, 2017–February 11, 2018, no. 58, ill.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, Cézanne, The Rock and Quarry Paintings, March 7–June 14, 2020, fig. 67, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, dated 1890–95, to be shown in London only. Traveled to: Royal Academy, London, July 12–October 18, 2020 (N.B. This venue was cancelled due to 2020 coronavirus).
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 661, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 115.
Illustrations. Edinburgh: Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1980, p. 20, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Le retour de l'enfant prodigue." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 44.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 213, ill.
Hoog, Michel. "L'Oeuvre." In Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 205, fig. 184.
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne & Poussin: A Symposium. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993, pl. 13.
Bozal, Valeriano. "Paul Cézanne: la mirada es le leguaje." La Balsa de la Medusa (Madrid) 36 (1995), p. 98, as Montaña Sainte-Victoire.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 31, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 164.
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. 901, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 59, fig. 48, as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibémus.
Benesch, Evelyn. "From the Incomplete to the Unfinished: Realisation in the Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, fig. 16, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Van Look, Hans-Günther. Sehrevolte der Scheinung: Cézanne am Mont Sainte-Victoire. Munich: Verlag Karl Alber GmbH Freiburg, 2008, pp. 2–4 of illustrations (detail pp. 2–3).
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: À Paris et en Île de France. ed., Denis Coutagne. Marseille: Éditions Crès, 2011, p. 120, ill., 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. 84.
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. 31, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, with photo of the motif.
Record last updated March 7, 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, 1900–02 (FWN 348)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=875 (accessed on April 18, 2024).
