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 227
Maison devant la Sainte-Victoire près de Gardanne
1886–90
Alternate titles: Haus am Berg; Haus am Mont Sainte-Victoire; House in Provence; La Maison en Provence; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Sainte-Victoire, Beaurecueil; Maison devant la Sainte-Victoire, vue de La Barque; Maison en Provence; Maisons en Provence; Paysage près de Gardanne; Sainte-Victoire; The Mountain; The Mountain, Sainte Victoire
Rewald (573): 1886–90; Venturi revised: 1885–86; Venturi (433): 1885–86; Rivière: 1886; Cooper: 1885–86
Oil on canvas
25 13/16 x 32 in. (65.5 x 81.3 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3879, huile; 1r plan vert avec une route une maison avec toit rouge plus loin de montagne bleue, 64 x 80 cm (150 frs)
Vollard X stockbook: no. 5155, paysage
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, 4e exposition, October 6–November 15, 1906, no. 317, as Maison en Provence, tentative identification, lent by Vollard.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Paul Cézanne, January 10–22, 1910, no. 8, as La Maison en Provence, lent by H. Bernstein.
Galerie Thannhauser, Vereinshaus der Berliner Künstler, Berlin, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January 9–mid-February, 1927, no. 28, as Haus am Berg, tentative identification.
Kunstverein, Alte Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Europäische Kunst der Gegenwart, Zentenarausstellung des Kunstvereins, July 31–October 2, 1927, no. 174, as Haus am Berg, lent by Reber, Lugano.
Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, Ausstellung Französischer Meister des XIX Jahrhunderts aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz ergänzt durch sechs Gemälde von Cézanne als Leihgabe der Sammlung G.F. Reber, Lugano, October 16–November 16, 1927, no. 3, as Haus am Berg.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne, Derain and Others, February 17–March 14, 1936, no. 1, as House in Provence.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, June 26–October 4, 1936, no. 257.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Cézanne and Gauguin, November 1–December 13, 1936, no. 19, ill., as House in Provence, lent by Marie Harriman Gallery.
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Paul Cézanne: Exhibition of Paintings, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints, September 1–October 4, 1937, no. 19, ill. lent by Harriman Gallery.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1938.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, 1939.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 9, (dated 1885–86), as La Maison en Provence.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor and de Young Museum, San Francisco, Seven Centuries of Painting, December 29, 1939–January 28, 1940, no. 1061, ill.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, January 14–February 18, 1941, no. 10, ill.
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, The Art of the Third Republic: French Painting, 1870–1940, February 22–March 16, 1941, no. 7, ill., as La Sainte-Victoire, Beaurecueil, 1885-86, lent by Marie Harriman Gallery, New York.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 116, ill. shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 55, ill. shown in Washington only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Cézanne: site / non-site, February 4–May 18, 2014, no. 54, ill.
Published References
Tugendhold, Yakov. "Landscape in French Painting." Apollon, no. 7 (1911), ill. between pp. 16 and 17.
Borgmeyer, Charles Louis. The Master Impressionists. Chicago: The Fine Arts Press, 1913, p. 270, ill., as The Mountain, Sainte Victoire, Collection Vollard.
Wright, Willard Huntington. "Paul Cézanne, The Misanthropic Don Quixote of Modern Art." Current Opinion 60 (February 1916), p. 124, ill. "Courtesy Washington Square Gallery".
Stuart, Evelyn Marie. "Cézanne and His Place in Impressionism." Fine Arts Journal 35, no. 5 (May 1917), p. 327, ill., as The Mountain, "Collection Vollard".
Arbiter, Petronius. "A Degenerate Work of Art: 'The Bathers' by Cézanne." The Art World 3, no. 4 (January 1918), p. 331, ill.
Shirakaba 9, no. 3 (March 1918), ill. p. 33, page illustrated in Schoneveld, 2019, p. 46, fig. 38.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. opposite p. 168.
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 138.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 205.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 214, listed (as Route de Trets, aux environs d'Aix . . . ).
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 4.
Ruckstull, Fred Wellington. Great Works of Art and What Makes Them Great. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1925, figs. 17 and 117.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 108.
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. Modern Painting. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1927, p. 341, ill.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 85, as Haus am Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1885 (Photo: Thannhauser).
Schürer, Oskar. "Internationale Kunstausstellung Dresden, III." Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 59 (October 1926-March 1927), p. 272.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. LXX.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 105, ill.
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. Concerning Beauty. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1935, pl. hors texte, p. 201.
Vauxcelles, Louis. "Cézanne au Musée de l'Orangerie." Le Monde illustré (Paris) (May 9, 1936), ill. p. 300, as Aquarelle [sic].
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 433, ill. vol. II, as La Sainte-Victoire, Beaurecueil.
Loran, Erle. "San Francisco's First Cézanne Show." Magazine of Art 30, no. 10 (October 1937), p. 635, ill.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 54, as ...paysage de Gardanne ...
Rewald, John. "Un épisode inconnu de la vie de Cézanne." Paris. Marianne: grand hebdomadaire littéraire illustré (October 20, 1937), p. 8, ill., as Paysage près de Gardanne, 1885-86.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, fig. 7.
Pickens, Buford L. "H.H. Richardson and Basic Form Concepts in Modern." Art Quarterly 3 (Summer 1940), pp. 277–78, ill. p. 275.
Hautecoeur, Louis. Littérature et peinture en France du XVIIe au XXe siècle. Paris: A. Colin, 1942, pl. XL, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 113, ill.
Rewald, John. "As Cézanne Recreated Nature." Art News 43, no. 1 (February 15, 1944), p. 13, ill. (with photograph of motif).
Hope, H. "House in Provence by Paul Cézanne." Bulletin of The Art Association of Indianapolis (October 1945), pp. 23–24, ill. on cover.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, col. pl. 49, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885-86.
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les Peintres provençaux de Nicolas Froment à Paul Cezanné. Paris: La Jeune Parque, 1947, p. 87, ill.
Carpenter, James. "Cézanne and Tradition." The Art Bulletin 33, no. 3 (September 1951), p. 178, fig. 5.
Roger-Marx, Claude. Les Impressionnistes. Paris: Hachette, 1956, p. 81, as Sainte-Victoire.
Leonhard, Kurt. Paul Cézanne in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rheinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966, p. 134, ill.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 17 (with comments).
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 229, fig. 115.
Hoog, Michel. "L'Oeuvre." In Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 198, fig. 176.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 121.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 127, fig. 108, with photographs of the motif, figs. 106 and 107, as Maison devant la Sainte-Victoire près de Gardanne, dated c. 1886.
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. 573, ill. vol. 2, as Maison devant la Sainte-Victoire près de Gardanne.
Kropmanns, Peter, and Uwe Fleckner. "Von kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen." In Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, edited by Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, listed p. 387.
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 133, fig. 3.34, as Maison devant la Sainte-Victoire près de Gardanne.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 63, ill. with photos of motif (c. 1935 and 1998), p. 62, as Maison devant la Sainte-Victoire près de Gardanne.
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. 7.
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's 'Primitive' Perspective, or the 'View from Everywhere.'" The Art Bulletin 95, no. 1 (March 2013), fig. 7.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 116, ill., as Maisons en Provence, installation photograph from 1910 exhibition, p. 83, ill.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pls. 94, 97 (detail).
Record last updated July 5, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Maison devant la Sainte-Victoire près de Gardanne, 1886–90 (FWN 227)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=560 (accessed on November 12, 2024).