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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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 126
Vers la montagne Sainte-Victoire
1878–79
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et le chemin; La Montagne Victoire; La montagne Victoire et la route; La montagne Victoire et le chemin; La plaine; Paysage; Toward Mont Sainte-Victoire; Vers la Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Vue de la campagne d'Aix
Rewald (397): 1878–79; Venturi revised: 1886–87; Venturi (424): 1882–85; Other: Barnes: mid–1870s
Oil on canvas
18 1/4 x 21 3/4 in. (46.4 x 55.2 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3487, huile; au premier plan une nap[p]e verte qui traverse de biais un chemin raviné; au second plan amoncellent des maisons; au fond Ste Victoire (100 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 6, as La montagne Victoire et la route, for sale (N.B. A label on the verso of the painting indicates that the painting was No. 16 in the catalogue, which would correspond to the first printed catalogue - see full listing).
Grafton Galleries, London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists, November 8, 1910–January 15, 1911, no. 51, as La Montagne Victoire, tentative identification, lent by Bernheim-Jeune.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, La Montagne, July 20–August 5, 1911, no. 4, ill., as La montagne Victoire et le chemin.
Stafford Gallery, London, Pictures by Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin, November–December 1911, no. 3, as La montagne Victoire et le chemin.
Published References
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, ill. p. 183.
Barnes, Albert C. "Cézanne." Journal of the Barnes Foundation 1, no. 3 (October 1925), p. 480.
Salmon, André. "Cézanne et son 'Grappin' [Hommage à Paul Cézanne]." L'Art vivant (Paris), no. 37 (July 1, 1926), p. 489, ill., as Vue de la campagne d'Aix.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 19], as La plaine.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 129, 456.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 424, ill. vol. II, as Vers la montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 57, p. 177, ill.
De Mazia, Violette. "Creative Distortion: The Case of the Levitated Pear." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 4, no. 1 (Spring 1973), p. 14n, pls. 7 and 19 (installation).
De Mazia, Violette. "Expression." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1974), p. 23n, pl. 17.
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter." Vistas 2, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1980), p. 20, pl. 80.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 132.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 161, fig. 85.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 321, fig, 249.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 397, ill. vol. 2, as Vers la montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Ely, Bruno. "Gardanne, Montbriand and Bellevue." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 158, fig. 9, as Vers la montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Shiff, Richard. "He Painted." In Cézanne's Card Players. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 74, fig. 43.
Dolkart, Judith F. "To see as the Artist Sees, Albert C. Barnes and the Experiment in Education." In The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 12, fig. 4.
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 36.
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. 3, ill., as Vers 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. 112, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et le chemin, installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, p. 85.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 21, pp. 138–46, as Toward Mont Sainte-Victoire (catalogue notes by N. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer).
Notes
This landscape is the first documented acquisition of a Cézanne by Alfred Barnes.
Record last updated May 3, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Vers la montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1878–79 (FWN 126)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=392 (accessed on July 5, 2025).
