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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)
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© Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
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
Jos. Hessel, Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne
Mr. and Mrs. W. Averell Harriman, New York (1931);
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1972)
Exhibition History
1933a New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, French Paintings, February 21–March 15, 1933, no. 9, as Paysage - Provence.1933b Chicago
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.1934 Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne, November–December 1934, no. 19, (dated c. 1885), as The Provençal landscape, lent by Harriman Gallery.1937 San Francisco
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.1937f New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Constable and the Landscape, November 1937, no. 18, as Sainte-Victoire, very possibly this work.1939h New York
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, Cézanne: Centennial Exhibition, November 7–December 2, 1939, no. 10, (dated 1885–86), as La Sainte-Victoire.1950 New Haven
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.1956 New Haven
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, May 8–June 18, 1956, no. 115, ill.1957a New York
World House Galleries, New York, The Struggle for New Form, January 22–February 23, 1957, no. 14.1957 Milwaukee
Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Inaugural Exhibition, September 12–October 20, 1957, no. 61, ill.1961 Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Marie and Averell Harriman Collection, April 15–May 14, 1961, no number, ill., p. 140.1971 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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, 1971.1982 Liège and traveling
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 (exhibition catalogue; preface by Denis Coutagne).1982 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cézanne, June 12–August 31, 1982, no. 16, (with erroneous illustration (FWN226)).1984–85 Los Angeles and traveling
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 (L’Impressionnisme et le paysage français, see 1985a Paris).1985a Paris
Grand Palais, Paris, L’Impressionnisme et le paysage français, February 4–April 22, 1985, no. 130, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.1990 Aix-en-Provence
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 36, fig. 177.2000 Vienna and traveling
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 (initially planned to end on July 30 the exhibition was extended until August 13).2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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, 2006.2017 Martigny
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 1918a
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 181.Zeisho 1921
Zeisho, Atzouji. Paul Cézanne. Tokyo: Rakuyodo, Taisho, 1921, fig. 15.Meier-Graefe 1922
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 216.Meier-Graefe 1923
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper, 1923, ill. p. 65.Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 86, as Landschaft der Provence, c. 1885 (Photo: Thannhauser).Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 437, ill. vol. II, as La Sainte-Victoire, environs de Gardanne.Wilenski 1940
Wilenski, R.H. Modern French Painters. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940, fig. 20A.Loran 1943
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.Cheney 1947
Cheney, Sheldon. The Story of Modern Art. New York: Viking Press, 1947, p. 205, ill.National Gallery of Art 1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1975, no. 2589, p. 65 ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire.Coutagne 1984
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 and Williams 1986
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 1990
Hoog, Michel. "L'Oeuvre." In Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 199, fig. 177.Coutagne et al. 1996
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 120.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. 574, ill. vol. 2, as La Sainte-Victoire, environs de Gardanne.Benesch 2000
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 and Fleckner 2001
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.Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 47.Société Paul Cézanne 2005
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 2008
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 2014
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.
Photo: Courtesy Alain Mothe
Site identified by Denis Coutagne.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 2004; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated July 12, 2022. 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 Pont de Bayeux à Meyreuil, 1886–88 (FWN 228)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=561 (accessed on April 20, 2024).
