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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)
Catalogue entry
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
Estate of Paul Cezanne
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Feb. 12, 1907)
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne (April 5, 1913)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Percy Moore Turner, London (October 14, 1923)
Samuel Courtauld, London (1924);
The Courtauld Gallery, London (1932)
Exhibition History
1907d Paris
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.1911 New York
Photo-Succession Gallery [Alfred Stieglitz], New York, Watercolors by Cezanne, March 1–25, 1911, no. 8, as Mount Victoire.1925b London
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 4, as Sainte-Victoire, lent by S. Courtauld.1932 London
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. 202.1939 Melbourne and traveling
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, 1939.1948 London
Tate Gallery, London, Samuel Courtauld: Memorial Exhibition, May–June 1948, no. 85, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890.1949–50 London
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.1951 Amsterdam
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.1952c 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.1955b Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Impressionnistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, October 1955, no. 71, pl. 50, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890.1959–60 London
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, 1959–60, no. 13.1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 65, pl. 36, c. 1890.1961 Aix-en-Provence
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.1963f New York
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.1973 Newcastle upon Tyne and traveling
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, 1973.1983a London
British Museum, London, Mantegna to Cézanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, 1983, no. 100, ill., and color pl. VIII, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.1986 Oxford and traveling
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, 1986.1990 Edinburgh
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.2001 Washington, D.C.
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.2008 London
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. 1885-87.2019 Paris
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.2019 London
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
Anonymous 1911
Anonymous. "Watercolors by Cézanne." New York Times, March 13, 1911, p. 15.Sitwell 1925
Sitwell, Osbert. "The Courtauld Collection." Apollo 2, no. 7 (August 1925), p. 68, ill.Wallenquist 1934
"Genmälen post festum till försvunna bekanta." Konstrevy (Stockholm) X (1934), ill. p. 172, as Berget St. Victoire.Home House 1935
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1023, ill. vol. II, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire.Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 68.Loran 1943
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 101, pl. XXIV (with photograph of the motif).Carpenter 1951
Carpenter, James. "Cézanne and Tradition." The Art Bulletin 33, no. 3 (September 1951), pp. 182, 183, fig. 11.Cooper 1954b
Cooper, Douglas. The Courtauld Collection. London: Athlone Press, 1954, no. 100.Huyghe 1956
Huyghe, René. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Lausanne, 1956, pl. 105.Dittmann 1961
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Zur Kunst Cézannes." In Festschrift Kurt Badt. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1961, p. 205, pl. 5.Siblík 1969
Siblík, Jiří. Paul Cézanne: Kresby [Drawings]. Prague: Odeon, 1969, fig. 47.Rawson 1974
Rawson, Philipp. "Intimate Scaffolding'/Cézanne's Drawings and Watercolors." International Studio (January 1974), p. 25, ill.De Mazia 1974b
De Mazia, Violette. "Expression." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1974), pl. 33.Gowing 1977
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 1980
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 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 279, ill.Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 143, fig. 74.Terrasse 1995
Terrasse, Antoine. Les aquarelles de Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, pp. 60-1, ill.Kropmanns and Fleckner 2001
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.Simms 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 121, fig. 85.Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 227, fig. 154.Bonfort 2016
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 2017a
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 2018
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 2019
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 2019
Salmon, Dimitri. Percy Moore Turner, Précieux conseiller de Samuel & Elizabeth Courtauld. Paris: Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2019, annex list, no. 13, ill.Dauberville 2020
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 24, 2024).
