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 1130
La Vallée de l'Arc
c.1885
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Vallée de l'Arc (vue du Tubet); Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Montagne Ste. Victoire; Sainte-Victoire et l'Arbre; The Valley of the Arc; Vallée de l'Arc; Valley of the Arc
Rewald (W241); Venturi revised: 1886–87; Cézanne fils: c.1888 (in Orangerie catalogue, 1936); Venturi (914): 1883–87; Rivière: 1887; Gowing: 1887 (because Cézanne is not documented in the south in 1888)
Graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache, on wove paper
13 15/16 x 21 1/8 in. (35.4 x 53.7 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne, October 1–22, 1907, no. 33, as Sainte-Victoire et l'Arbre, lent by Cézanne fils.
Galerie Renou et Colle, Paris, Aquarelles et baignades de Cézanne, June 3–17, 1935.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 122, ill., pl. XXXIX, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1888, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 72, as Montagne Ste. Victoire, c. 1885, lent by Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Valentine [Dudensing] Gallery, New York, Cézanne watercolors, Renoir drawings, January 4–30, 1937, no. 2, as Vallée de l'Arc.
Musée de Lyon, Palais Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, Centenaire de Paul Cézanne, May 7–June 18, 1939, no. 49, ill. in b/w, pl. XVI, as La Vallée de l'Arc, 1883-1887, lent by Cézanne fils.
Société des artistes indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris, 50e exposition - Centenaire du peintre indépendant Paul Cézanne, March 17–April 10, 1939, no. 33, as Vallée de l'Arc, 1883-87, lent by Cézanne fils.
Tate Gallery, London, Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours, opening on April 10, 1946, no. 18, as Valley of the Arc, 1888, lent anonymously. Traveled to: Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom, May–June 1946; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 1946.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 41, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Paul Cézanne Aquarelle, January 16–March 21, 1982, no. 28, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, dated 1885-87, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago; Gift of Marshall Field IV (Inv.-No. 1964.199). Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 2–May 31, 1982.
Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Alfred Flechtheim: Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger, September 20–November 1, 1987, no. 22, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1883-87. Traveled to: Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany, November 29, 1987–January 17, 1988.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, hors catalogue.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 42, ill. in color, as The Valley of the Arc, lent by The Art Institute of Chicago.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 94, ill. in color, p. 262, as La Vallée de l'Arc, c. 1885, lent by The Art Institute Chicago, shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 111, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 215, listed.
Severini, Gino. "Cézanne: A proposito dell'esposizione parigina." Emporium 84, no. 502 (October 1936), p. 197, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 914, ill. vol. II, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 84.
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 33, no. 20, ill. (dated 1883-87), Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Johnson, Ellen. "Cézanne and a Pine Tree." Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum 21, no. 1 (Fall 1963), fig. 7.
"[Aquisitions des musées du monde entier]." La Chronique des arts: supplément à la Gazette des beaux-arts, no. 1153 (February 1965), p. 63, no. 248, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Joachim, Harold, and Sandra Haller Olsen. French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, 1978, no. 1C2.
"Paul Cézanne - Aquarelle." Kunsthaus Zürich - Mitteilungsblatt der Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (Zurich) 2.82 (1982), ill. p. 8.
Cézanne. Liège: Musée Saint-Georges, 1982. Exhibition catalogue, p. 46, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 135.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 241, ill. and color pl. 28.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 103, fig. 70.
Mitchell, Mark D. "A New Tradition: Cézanne, Demuth, and the Invention of Modern Watercolor." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 287, fig. 10.8
Tedeschi, Martha. John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism. Chicago and New Haven: AIC & Yale University Press, 2010, p. 80-81, fig. 70.
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 609, no. 1459, ill. in color, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1885.
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 54.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 225, fig. 152.
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. 15, ill., as La Vallée de l'Arc (vue du Tubet), with photo of motif, p. 14.
Kaufmann, Bettina. Paul Cezanne: Die Bilder seiner Ausstellung Paris 1907 besucht, betrachtet und beschrieben von Rainer Maria Rilke. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2018, no. 33, p. 191, ill., as Sainte-Victoire et l'Arbre.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Vallée de l'Arc, c.1885 (FWN 1130)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1221 (accessed on May 19, 2025).
