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)
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FWN 1168
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
1885–87
Alternate titles: Colline (Montagne Sainte-Victoire); Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mont Ste. Victoire; Mount Sainte Victoire
Rewald (W280); Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (1561): 1885–87
Graphite and watercolor on wove paper
15 1/4 x 19 5/8 in. (38.8 x 49.9 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, Pictures, Drawings, and Sculptures of the French School of the Last 100 Years, Spring 1922, no. 67.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The museum's first loan exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh, November 8–December 7, 1929, no. 30, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire, lent by Private collection.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Watercolors, June 1933, no. 19.
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 16, as Mount Sainte Victoire, lent through the courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 56, as Mont Ste. Victoire, lent by Paul J. Sachs.
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Master Drawings, 1935, no. 125, ill.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 44, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885-87, lent by Mr. Paul J. Sachs.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 23.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A Thousand Years of Landscape: East and West, October 24–December 9, 1945, listed p. 3.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, May 20–September 15, 1947, no. 160, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, lent by Henry P. McIlhenny.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, 1949, no no.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Class of 1933 Exhibition, 1958, no no.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, June 15–July 31, 1962, no. 3, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885-90.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 43, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, French Masterpieces of the 19th Century from the Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, May 1–September 18, 1977, no no., ill., p.74.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 28, ill.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Classic Cézanne, November 28, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 40, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885-87, lent by Fogg Art Museum.
Published References
Sickert, Walter. "French Art of the Nineteenth Century - London." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 40, no. 231 (June 1922), fig. D p. [267], as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1561, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Bernier, Rosamond. "Le Musée privé d'un conservateur." L'Oeil 27 (March 1957), p. 24, ill.
Mongan, Agnes. "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings." Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA) XII, no. 2 (1958), p. 207.
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 391, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 280, ill.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 226, fig. 153.
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.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 355, ill., as Colline (Montagne Sainte-Victoire).
Record last updated March 23, 2021. 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 1168)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1261 (accessed on April 19, 2024).
