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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FWN 228
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du Pont de Bayeux à Meyreuil
1886–88
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Sainte-Victoire; La Sainte-Victoire, environs de Gardanne; La Sainte-Victoire, vue des environs du pont du Bayeux; Landschaft der Provence; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Paysage - Provence; Sainte-Victoire; The Provençal landscape; The Sainte Victoire from Beaureceuil
Rewald: (574) 1886–88; Venturi revised: 1885–86; Venturi: (437) 1885–86
Oil on canvas
26 5/8 x 36 in. (67.5 x 91.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, French Paintings, February 21–March 15, 1933, no. 9, as Paysage - Provence.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 315, (dated c. 1885), lent by Marie Harriman Gallery.
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 19, (dated c. 1885), as The Provençal landscape, lent by 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. 20, ill. lent by Harriman Gallery.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Constable and the Landscape, November 1937, no. 18, as Sainte-Victoire, very possibly this work.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 10, (dated 1885–86), as La Sainte-Victoire.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, French Paintings of the Latter Half of the the Nineteenth Century: from the Collections of Alumni and Friends of Yale, April 17–May 21, 1950, no. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885-1886, lent by Mr. W. Averell Harrimann, '13 and Mrs. Harriman.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, May 8–June 18, 1956, no. 115, ill.
World House Galleries, New York, The Struggle for New Form, January 22–February 23, 1957, no. 14.
Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Inaugural Exhibition, September 12–October 20, 1957, no. 61, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, The Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, April 15–May 14, 1961, no number, ill., p. 140.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C, Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 15. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Musée Saint-Georges, Liège, Belgium, Cézanne, March 12–May 9, 1982, no. 16, ill., (with erroneous illustration (FWN226)), c. 1887. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 12–August 31, 1982.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 16, (with erroneous illustration (FWN226)).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–September 16, 1984, no. 130, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire, lent by National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, October 23, 1984–January 6, 1985; Grand Palais, Paris, February 4–April 22, 1985.
Grand Palais, Paris, L’Impressionnisme et le paysage français, February 4–April 22, 1985, no. 130, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 36, fig. 177.
Kunstforum, Vienna, Cézanne: Vollendet unvollendet, January 20–April 25, 2000, no. 92, ill., as La Sainte-Victoire, environs de Gardanne. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zürich, May 5–August 13, 2000.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 54, ill., (dated c. 1887), shown in Aix only. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne: le chant de la terre, June 16–November 19, 2017, no. 51, ill. lent by National Gallery of Art.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 181.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 216.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 86, as Landschaft der Provence, c. 1885 (Photo: Thannhauser).
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 437, ill. vol. II, as La Sainte-Victoire, environs de Gardanne.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 127, pl. XXXVIII (with photograph of the motif), as The Sainte Victoire from Beaureceuil.
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2589, p. 65 ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Coutagne, Denis. "Le retour de l'enfant prodigue." In Cézanne au Musée d'Aix. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1984, ill. p. 16 (with erroneous Venturi no. 435).
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. 164, ill.
Hoog, Michel. "L'Oeuvre." In Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 199, fig. 177.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 120.
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. 574, ill. vol. 2, as La Sainte-Victoire, environs de Gardanne.
Benesch, Evelyn. "From the Incomplete to the Unfinished: Realisation in the Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 50, fig. 11, as La Sainte-Victoire, environs 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.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 65, ill. with photo of motif (1998), p. 64, as La Sainte-Victoire, environs de Gardanne.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 220; vol. 2, p. 152, as La Sainte-Victoire, vue des environs du pont du Bayeux.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 117, fig. 37b, with color photo of the site, fig. 37a, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du Pont de Bayeux à Meyreuil.
Record last updated July 12, 2022. 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. "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du Pont de Bayeux à Meyreuil, 1886–88 (FWN 228)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=561 (accessed on June 5, 2023).
