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 357
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir
c.1904
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Ste. Victoire; Le Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Grove at the Château Noir; Mount Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (902): c.1904; Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (665): 1894–1900; Reff: end of 1890s (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 5/8 in. (65 x 80.3 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4472, paysage. Les crêtes de Ste. Victoire, 65 x 81 cm (4500/9000 frs)
Private collection, Qatar
Provenance
Private collection, Qatar
Exhibition History
Galerie Pigalle, Paris, Exposition Cèzanne, 1839–1906, January 4–February 7, 1930, no. 41, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1903, lent by Vollard.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Cézanne, May 18–29, 1931.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Paintings from the Ambroise Vollard Collection, XIX-XX Centuries, November 6–December 3, 1933, no. 14, ill., as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902, no. 12 in Detroit venue. Traveled to: Arts and Crafts Club, Detroit, December 11, 1933–January 1934.
Alex Reid & Lefevre, London, Renoir, Cézanne and Their Contemporaries, June 1934, no. 11, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1899.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 51, as La Montagne Ste. Victoire, c. 1900, lent by Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, London.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Masterpieces by 19th Century French Painters, April 11–30, 1938, no. 1.
W. Scott & Sons, Montreal, Paintings by French Masters: Delacroix to Dufy, October–November 1938, no. 2.
Bignou Gallery, New York, Significant Landmarks of 19th Century French Painting, February 20–March 25, 1939, no. 3, ill.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, French Painting, 1100–1900, October 18–December 2, 1951, no. 121, ill.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gèrôme to Gauguin, September 28–October 31, 1954, extended until November 11, no. 100, ill., as Mount Sainte-Victoire, c. 1894-1900, lent anonymously.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 93, ill.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 62, ill.
Published References
Dormoy, Marie. "Die Cézanne—Ausstellung im Théâtre Pigalle." Kunst und Künstler 28, no. 6 (1930), pp. 247–48.
Morselle, Mary. "Vollard Collection Exhibited at Knoedler's." The Art News 32, no. 5 (November 11, 1933), p, 4, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
"Notable Works of Art Now on the Market." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 65, no. 381 (December 1934), pl. XIV, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Fry, Roger. "An Exhibition of French Painting." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 65, no. 376 (July 1934), p. 35, fig. A p. [31], as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 665, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
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. 56, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 157.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 31, fig. 11.
Brian, Doris. "Milestones in French Painting, Significant Charting of the Progress of the XIX Century." Art News Vol. 37, issue 22 (Feb. 25, 1939), p. 9, ill,, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 102–03, pl. XXV (with photograph of the motif).
Novotny, Fritz. "Cézanne als Zeichner." Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 14 (1950), p. 237.
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 131.
Rubin, William, ed. Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, pl. 114.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 89, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Parinaud, André. "Cézanne c'est la vie." Arts, no. 62 (April 23, 1982), ill. p. 12; p. 13 photo of the motif.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 104, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 264, fig. 2.
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 206, fig. 3.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 109, fig. 78, with photograph of the motif, p. 108, fig. 77, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir.
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. 902, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 121, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1976), p. 120, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 213, ill.
Conisbee, Philip. "The Late Paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 290, fig. 13, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 340; vol. 2, p. 224, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir.
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. 11.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 197, fig. 74b, with color photo of motif, p. 194, fig. 74a, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir.
Betz, Juliane. "Hineinsehen or Seeing-In': Some Basics on Formal Ambiguities in the Works of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 14.
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. 335, fig. 4, as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Grove at the Château Noir.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pls. 46, 48 (detail).
Photograph by Lionello Venturi, 1933–35 (Courtesy Archivio di Lionello Venturi, Department of Art History and Performance, Sapienza University, Rome)
Photograph of the motif.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washignton, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald, circa 1939; © Sabine Rewald
Site identified by Erle Loran.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 2010; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir, c.1904 (FWN 357)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=876 (accessed on November 23, 2024).
