The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of 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 Victoire; La Montagne Victoire et le Chemin; La plaine; Paysage; 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
17 11/16 x 21 in. (45 x 53.3 cm)18 1/4 x 21 3/4 in. (46.4 x 55.2 cm) (BF)
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. 16, as Paysage, lent by Th. Duret.
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.
Stafford Gallery, London, Gauguin and Cézanne, November, 1911, no. 3, as La Montagne Victoire et le Chemin.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, La Montagne, July 20–August 5, 1911, no. 4, ill.
Published References
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, ill. p. 183.
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pl. 23.
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.
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.
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Tisne, 1948, pl. 87.
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.
Barskaya, Anna. Paul Cézanne. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1975, p. 168, ill.
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter." Vistas 2, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1980), p. 20, pl. 80.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 161, fig. 85.
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.
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.
This landscape is the first documented acquisition of a Cézanne by Alfred Barnes.
Record last updated March 5, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash. "Vers la montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1878–79 (FWN 126)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=392 (accessed on June 17, 2019).