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 1167
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
1885–87
Alternate titles: Berget St. Victoire; De berg Ste Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Mount Victoire; Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (W279); Venturi revised: 1890–95; Venturi (1023): 1890–1900
Graphite and watercolor on laid paper
Watermark: VIDALON
12 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (32.7 x 50.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Les aquarelles de Cézanne, June 17–29, 1907, ? probably in the exhibition since it had been acquired earlier in the year.
Photo-Succession Gallery [Alfred Stieglitz], New York, Watercolors by Cezanne, March 1–25, 1911, no. 8, as Mount Victoire.
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 4, as Sainte-Victoire, lent by S. Courtauld.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, French Art, January 4–March 12, 1932, no. 989, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Samuel Courtauld, London; Commemorative Catalogue: no. 795, pl. 202.
Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia, Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, opening: October 16, 1939, no. 24a, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, lent by the Courtauld Institute, London. Traveled to: Exhibition Gallery, David Jones', Sidney, Australia, opening: November 20, 1939.
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 85, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Landscape in French Art, 1550–1900, December 10, 1949–March 5, 1950, no. 554, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890, lent by the Home House Trustees.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Het Franse Landschap, von Poussin tot Cézanne, March 18–June 4, 1951, no. 151, as De berg Ste Victoire, c. 1890/1900, lent by Home House Trustees, London.
Arts Council of Great Britain, St. James's Square Gallery, London, French Drawings from Fouquet to Gauguin, February 2–March 16, 1952, no. 15, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1890-1900, lent by the Home House Trustees.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 71, pl. 50, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890.
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, 1959–60, no. 13.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 65, pl. 36, c. 1890.
Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France, Exposition Cézanne: Tableaux, Aquarelles, Dessins, July 1–August 15, 1961, no. 27, ill. in b/w, pl.17, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1886-1890, lent by Courtauld Institute, London.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, April 2–20, 1963, no. 27, pl. XXVI, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890, lent by Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Watercolour and Pencil Drawings by Cézanne, September 19–November 4, 1973, no. 55, ill. in b/w, catalogue note: p. 162, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, lent by Courtauld Institute of Art; shown in Newcastle only. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery, London, November 13–December 30, 1973.
British Museum, London, Mantegna to Cézanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, 1983, no. 100, ill., and color pl. VIII, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Arts Council of Great Britain, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom, Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections, March 11–April 20, 1986, no. 9, fig. 64. Traveled to: Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom, April 30–June 1, 1986; The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, United Kingdom, June 7–July 13, 1986.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 52, ill. in color, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Courtauld Institute Galleries, London.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York Galleries, January 28–April 22, 2001, pl. 19, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, Courtauld Gallery.
The Courtauld Gallery, London, The Courtauld Cézannes, June 26–October 5, 2008, no. 14, pp. 120-121, ill. in color p. 123, digital infrared reflectogram p. 122, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1885-87.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La Collection Courtauld: le parti de l'impressionnsime, February 20–June 17, 2019. (Exhibition catalogue: Serres et al 2019), no. 37, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Luxembourg & Dayan, London, Reconstructing Cezanne, Sequence and Process in Paul Cezanne's works on paper, October 2–December 7, 2019, no. 1, ill.
Published References
"Genmälen post festum till försvunna bekanta." Konstrevy (Stockholm) X (1934), ill. p. 172, as Berget St. Victoire.
Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art at Home House, 20 Portman Square, London. London: Home House Trustees, 1935, no. 22, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1023, ill. vol. II, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 68.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 101, pl. XXIV (with photograph of the motif).
Carpenter, James. "Cézanne and Tradition." The Art Bulletin 33, no. 3 (September 1951), pp. 182, 183, fig. 11.
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Zur Kunst Cézannes." In Festschrift Kurt Badt. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1961, p. 205, pl. 5.
Rawson, Philipp. "Intimate Scaffolding'/Cézanne's Drawings and Watercolors." International Studio (January 1974), p. 25, ill.
De Mazia, Violette. "Expression." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1974), pl. 33.
Gowing, Lawrence. "The Logic of Organized Sensations." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 58.
Berger, Klaus. "Krise des Impressionismus in den achtziger Jahren: Cézanne, Seurat, van Gogh, E. Bernard, Gauguin - Natur und Struktur." Japonismus in der westlichen Malerei: 1860-1920. Munich: Prestel, 1980, fig. 73, p. 118, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1890.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 279, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 143, fig. 74.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 388.
Chanin, Eileen, Steven Miller and Judith Pugh. Degenrates and perverts: the 1939 Herald exhibition of French and British contemporary art. Victoria (Australia): Miegunyah Press, 2005, ill.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 121, fig. 85.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 227, fig. 154.
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. 9, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "On Margins and Versos: The Hidden Interrelationships Among Cézanne's Works on Paper." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 10, with fig. 11 (FWN1155), the two works "were painted on both halves of one full sheet of paper".
Salmon, Dimitri. Le "Saint Joseph charpentier" de Georges de La Tour: un don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner. Gand: Snoeck, 2018, p. 404.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "Tackling Cezanne's Paper: On the Reconstruction of Loose Sheets." In Reconstructing Cezanne. London: Ridinghouse and Luxembourg & Dayan, 2019. Exhibition catalogue, p. 18, ill.
Salmon, Dimitri. Percy Moore Turner, Précieux conseiller de Samuel & Elizabeth Courtauld. Paris: Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2019, annex list, no. 13, ill.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 357, ill., as Sainte-Victoire.
Notes
This sheet, originally a French "raisin" size (50 x 65.5 cm), was cut in two. The other half of the sheet is [Paysage provençal (environs de Gardanne?), c.1885 (1155)]). The connection was discovered by Fabienne Ruppen.
Record last updated August 18, 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, 1885–87 (FWN 1167)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1260 (accessed on April 27, 2025).
