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© Albertina, Wien
FWN 1330
Château Noir devant la montagne Sainte-Victoire
1890–95
Alternate titles: Chateau Noir et Mont Ste. Victoire; Château Noir et Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Château Noir und Mont Sainte Victoire; Das Château Noir und das Gebirge Sainte-Victoire; Das Château Noir und der Mont Sainte-Victoire; Il "Câteau noir" ed il monte Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte Victoire et le Château Noir; Le Château Noir et la Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Le Château Noir et Montagne Sainte-Victoire; The "Château Noir" and Mont Sainte-Victoire - Château Noir et montagne Sainte-Victoire; The Château Noir with Mont Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (W393); Venturi revised: c.1900; Venturi (1025): 1895–1900
Watercolor and graphite on laid paper
12 3/16 x 19 in. (31 x 48.3 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 147
Albertina, Vienna (24081)

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Provenance
Simon Meller, Budapest, Paris and Munich
Albertina, Vienna (1924)
Exhibition History
1936 Basel
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 87, as Chateau Noir et Mont Ste. Victoire, c. 1900, lent by Albertina, Vienna.
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. 48, ill., as Le Château Noir et Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1895-1900, lent by Albertina, Vienna.
1948 Venice
Biennale Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy, Gli Impressionisti alla XXIV Biennale di Venezia, May 29–September 30, 1948, no. 49, ill., as Il "Câteau noir" ed il monte Sainte-Victoire, 1895-1900, lent by Albertina, Vienna.
1949–50 Brussels and traveling
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Le dessin français: de Fouquet à Cézanne, November–December 1949, no. 244 (supplement), as La Montagne Sainte Victoire et le Château Noir, 1895-1900, lent by Albertina, Vienna; after February 17 shown in Paris only. Traveled to: Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, December 25, 1949–February 6, 1950 (Tekeningen van Franse meesters: van Fouquet tot Cézanne); Musée national de l'Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, February–March 1950.
1950 Vienna
Albertina, Vienna, Meisterwerke aus Frankreichs Museen: Zeichnungen französischer Künstler vom Ausgang des Mittelalters bis Cézanne, Autumn 1950, no. 256, as Château Noir und Mont Sainte Victoire, c. 1895-1900.
1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 94, ill. 1895/1900, lent by Albertina, Vienna.
1956–57 Cologne
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, (Kunsthaus Lempertz), Cologne, Cézanne, Ausstellung zum Gedenken an sein 50. Todesjahr, December 1956–January 1957, no. 45, ill.
1961 Vienna
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 70, pl. 41, c. 1895-1900.
1964 Kassel
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, Documenta III, Internationale Ausstellung, Handzeichnungen, June 27–October 5, 1964, no. 5, ill., p.30 (the catalogue description applies to W239?)
1972–73 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Das Aquarell, 1400-1950, October 14, 1972–January 7, 1973, no. 300, ill.
1986 Munich
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Albertina Wien: Zeichnungen 1450-1950, September 18–November 19, 1986, no. 72, ill., as Das Château Noir und der Mont Sainte-Victoire.
2000 Vienna and traveling
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 110, ill., as Château Noir devant la montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1890-95, lent by Albertina, Vienna; shown in Vienna only. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).
2005 Vienna
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Goya bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, April 8–August 28, 2005, no. 107, ill., as Das Château Noir und das Gebirge Sainte-Victoire.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 110, ill. Albertina, Vienna; shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
2011–12 Milwaukee and traveling
Art Museum, Milwaukee, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, October 14, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 14, ill., as The Château Noir with Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1890-95, lent by Albertina, Vienna. Traveled to: Albertina, Vienna, February 10–May 13, 2012.
2012 Vienna
Albertina, Vienna, Impressionismus: Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, October 14, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 23, ill., as Das Château Noir und das Gebirge Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890-1895, lent by Albertina, Vienna.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 174, Albertina, Vienna.
Published References
Rewald and Marschutz 1935a
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Plastique et réalité: Cézanne au Château Noir." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 1 (January 1935), p. 19, no. 4.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1025, ill. vol. II, as Château Noir et Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 105.
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 4.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, col. pl. 97, as The "Château Noir" and Mont Sainte-Victoire - Château Noir et montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1895-1900, Albertina, Vienna.
Baer 1969
Baer, Curtis O. Landscape Drawings. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1969, no. 42, ill.
Hoog 1971
Hoog, Michel. L'Univers de Cézanne. Paris: Henri Scrépel, 1971, p. 14.
De Mazia 1974b
De Mazia, Violette. "Expression." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1974), pl. 40.
Jouffroy 1981
Jouffroy, Jean Pierre. La Mesure de Nicolas de Staél. Neuchâtel: Editions Ides et Calendes, 1981, p. 65, ill.
Schmidt 1982
Schmidt, Bertram. "Zur Musikalität der Farbe bei Cézanne." University of Tübingen, February 1982, no. 3, ill.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 393, ill.
Mráz 1987
Mráz, Bohumír. Aquarelles et dessins impressinnistes. [Gennevilliers]: Ars Mundi, 1987, pl. 86, listed p. 203, as Le Château Noir et la Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1895-1900.
Erpel 1988
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1988, p. 9, ill.
Terrasse 1995
Terrasse, Antoine. Les aquarelles de Cézanne. Paris: Flammarion, 1995, pp. 82-3, ill.
Graphische Sammlung Albertina 2003
Meisterzeichnungen der Albertina: C.D. Friedrich bis Cézanne. Schröder, Klaus Albrecht [editor]. Vienna: Albertina, 2003, no. 76, ill. and back cover, as Das Château Noir und das Gebirge Sainte-Victoire, c. 1895-1900.
Ekelhart 2007
Ekelhart, Christine. Die französischen Zeichnungen und Aquarelle des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts der Albertina. Schröder, Klaus Albrecht. Vienna: Böhlau, 2007, no. 35, ill., as Das Château Noir und das Gebirge Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890-1895.
Benedik 2008
Benedik, Christian et al. Die grossen Meister der Albertina. Schröder, Klaus Albrecht. Vienna: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2008, p. 473, no. 191, ill. pp. 476-477, as Das Château Noir und das Gebirge Sainte-Victoire, text by Christine Ekelhart.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 229, fig. 156.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 346, fig. 1, as The Château Noir with Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Château Noir devant la montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1890–95 (FWN 1330). Photograph of the motif. John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photograph of the motif. John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
Photo: John Rewald; © Sabine Rewald

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Record last updated May 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Château Noir devant la montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1890–95 (FWN 1330)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1374 (accessed on April 20, 2024).