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© President and Fellows of Harvard College
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)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (Gift of Henry P. McIlhenny)

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Provenance
Rouland
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (April 27, 1909)
Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt, Paris (May 5, 1909);
d'Hendecourt Collection, Sotheby's, London, May 9, 1929, no. 165, ill.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York
Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jacques Seligmann, New York
Henry McIlhenny, Philadelphia (Nov. 1937);
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (1957)
Exhibition History
1922 London
Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, Pictures, Drawings, and Sculptures of the French School of the Last 100 Years, Spring 1922, no. 67.
1929 New York
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.
1933 Northampton
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Watercolors, June 1933, no. 19.
1933c New York
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.
1934 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1934, no. 42.
1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 56, as Mont Ste. Victoire, lent by Paul J. Sachs.
1935 Buffalo
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Master Drawings, 1935, no. 125, ill.
1937 San Francisco
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.
1939h New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 23.
1945 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, A Thousand Years of Landscape: East and West, October 24–December 9, 1945, listed p. 3.
1947 Philadelphia
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.
1949 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, 1949, no no.
1958 Cambridge, Mass.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Class of 1933 Exhibition, 1958, no no.
1962 San Francisco
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.
1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
1977 Allentown
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.
1983 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 28, ill.
1998–99 Sydney
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 1922
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1561, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Sachs 1954
Sachs, Paul J. Modern Prints and Drawings. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954, no. 190.
Bernier 1957
Bernier, Rosamond. "Le Musée privé d'un conservateur." L'Oeil 27 (March 1957), p. 24, ill.
Mongan 1958
Mongan, Agnes. "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings." Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA) XII, no. 2 (1958), p. 207.
Canaday 1959
Canaday, John. Mainstreams of Modern Art. New York: Holt, 1959, p. 356, fig. 432.
Siblík 1969
Siblík, Jiří. Paul Cézanne: Kresby [Drawings]. Prague: Odeon, 1969, fig. 48.
Kelder 1980
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 391, ill.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 280, ill.
Kendall 1988
Kendall, Richard, ed. Cézanne: By Himself. London: Macdonald, 1988, p. 207, ill.
Terrasse 1995
Terrasse, Antoine. Les aquarelles de Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, pp. 62-3, ill.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 226, fig. 153.
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.
Dauberville 2020
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 May 2, 2024).