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Catalogue entry

© 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)

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Théodore Duret, Paris (Oct. 1901)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (February 9, 1910)
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion (Februarty 28, 1912, through the intermediary W.J. Glackens);
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia
Exhibition History
1910a Paris
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).
1910–11 London
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.
1911b Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, La Montagne, July 20–August 5, 1911, no. 4, ill., as La montagne Victoire et le chemin.
1911 London
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 1906
Duret, Théodore. Histoire des peintres impressionnistes: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Paris: H. Floury, 1906, ill. p. 183.
Klingsor 1923
Klingsor, Tristan L. Cézanne. Paris: Rieder, 1923, pl. 23.
Barnes 1925b
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, pp. 485–86.
Barnes 1925c
Barnes, Albert C. "Cézanne." Journal of the Barnes Foundation 1, no. 3 (October 1925), p. 480.
Salmon 1926a
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 1928
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne: 24 phototypies. Paris: Librairie de France, [1928], [pl. 19], as La plaine.
Barnes and de Mazia 1933
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 129, 456.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 424, ill. vol. II, as Vers la montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 57, p. 177, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 87, listed p. 159.
De Mazia 1973a
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 1974b
De Mazia, Violette. "Expression." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1974), p. 23n, pl. 17.
De Mazia 1980
De Mazia, Violette. "Subject and Subject Matter." Vistas 2, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1980), p. 20, pl. 80.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 132.
Rewald 1989
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 et al 1990b
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 321, fig, 249.
Rewald 1996
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 2006b
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 2010
Shiff, Richard. "He Painted." In Cézanne's Card Players. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. Exhibition catalogue, p. 74, fig. 43.
Dolkart 2012
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 2015
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 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. 3, ill., as Vers 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. 112, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et le chemin, installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, p. 85.
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, 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 January 4, 2022. 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 March 29, 2024).