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)
FWN 127
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du chemin de Valcros (et la bastide La Générale)
1878–79
Alternate titles: La Montagne de Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du chemin de Valcros; Landschaft; Le plateau de Ste-Victoire; Montagne de Ste. Victoire; Passage de Sainte-Victoire; Passage de Ste Victoire; Plateau de la Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Rovina u Hory St. Victoire; The Plain by Mont Sainte-Victoire: View from Valcros; The Plain in front of Mont Ste Victoire
Rewald (398): 1878–79; Venturi revised: 1886–87; Cézanne fils: 1880; Venturi (423): 1882–85
Oil on canvas
22 13/16 x 28 5/16 in. (58 x 72 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3764, huile; le 1r plan vert, le second jaune, au loin derriere un village Ste. Victoire – ciel bleu, 60 x 73 cm (200 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3561, Le mont "Sainte Victoire" - au premier plan une route jaune avec une bande verte, 60 x 73 cm (300 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 7, as La Montagne de Sainte-Victoire, lent by Vollard.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 8, ill.
Narodni Galerie, Sternberg Palace, Prague, Od Poussina k Picassovi : Mistrovska díla Muzeá A. S. Puškina v Moskvě (From Poussin to Picasso: Masterpieces of the A.S. Pushkin Museum in Moscow), October 17–November 26, 1972, no. 5, ill., as Rovina u Hory St. Victoire.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Landscape Masterpieces from Soviet Museums, October 18–November 30, 1975, no. 98, ill., as The Plain in front of Mont Ste Victoire, c. 1882-5, lent by Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Traveled to: Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, United Kingdom, December 18, 1975–January 28, 1976.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 9, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Musée Granet and Musée des Beaux-Arts, palais Longchamp, Aix-en Provence and Marseille, France, Le Grand Atelier du Midi: de Cézanne à Matisse [Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence]; de Van Gogh à Bonnard [Musée des Beaux-Arts, palais Longchamp, Marseille], June 13–October 13, 2013, no. 103, ill., p. 172, shown in Aix.
State Hermitage Museum, Mansion of Yusupova (42 Liteiny Avenue), St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, The Morosov Brothers: Great Russian Collectors, June 20–October 6, 2019, no. 25.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne, September 22, 2021–February 22, 2022, p. 489, ill. p. 276, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du chemin de Valcros.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Paul Cézanne." In Impressionisten: Guys, Manet, van Gogh, Pissarro, Cézanne. Munich and Leipzig: R. Piper & Co., 1907, ill. p. 191, as Passage de Ste Victoire, c. 1880.
Makovsky, Serguei. "[French artists in I. Morosov's collection, Moscow]." Apollon (St. Petersburg) 3, nos. 3–4 (March 1912), listed p. 23, ill. between pp. 28, 29, as Montagne de Ste. Victoire.
Denis, Maurice. "Cézanne: I [and] II." Kunst und Künstler 12, no. 4 and no. 5 (1914), ill. p. 211.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 125.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 152.
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), pp. 465-468, as Le plateau de Ste-Victoire, 1880.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 49, as Landschaft.
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 557.
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 739.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 423, ill. vol. II, as Plateau de la Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald, John. "Sources d'inspiration de Cézanne." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 106 p. 195, as La Montagne de Sainte-Victoire, c. 1880 (with photograph of motif, fig. 103).
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 66, fig. 24.
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 13, listed p. 338, as La Montagne de Sainte-Victoire, 1880.
Prokofiev, V.N. French Paintings in the Museums of the U.S.S.R. Moscow: Gos. isd-vo izobrazitelʹnogo iskusstva, 1962, pl. 165.
Kuznetsova, Irina Aleksandrovna, and Evgenia Georgievskaia. French Painting from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora, 1979, no. 184, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, pp. 131-132, pl. 11,12.
Bessonova, Marina, and William Williams. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Hermitage, Leningrad, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York: Park Lane, 1986, p. 161, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 13, ill.
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. 398, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du chemin de Valcros.
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. 10, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du chemin de Valcros.
Novotny, Fritz. Paul Cézanne: Gesammelte Schriften zu seinem Werk und Materialien aus dem Nachlaß. Introduction by Gabriel Ramin Schor (editor), Agnes Blaha (assistance). Vienna: Klever, 2011, fig. 24.
Chédeville, François. "Localisation de R398 [127] : La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du chemin de Valcros." Société Paul Cézanne (December 27, 2013).
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 38.
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. 4, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du chemin de Valcros (et la bastide La Générale), with photograph of the motif.
Kitschen, Friederike. "Das Papierne Museum: Julius Meier-Graefe und die Vergegenwärtigung Paul Cézannes in Bild und Wort." In Julius Meier-Graefe: Grenzgänger der Künste, Becker, Ingeborg and Stephanie Marchal (editors). Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017, p. 184, fig. 3 p. 185 (reproduction of ill. in Meier-Graefe 1907), as Passage de Sainte-Victoire.
Baldassari, Anne, ed. La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne. Paris: Editions Gallimard and Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 489 (listed), ill. p. 276.
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. 144, fig. 4, as The Plain by Mont Sainte-Victoire: View from Valcros.
Record last updated March 14, 2023. 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 vue du chemin de Valcros (et la bastide La Générale), 1878–79 (FWN 127)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=393 (accessed on March 17, 2025).
