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 234
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin
1886–87
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin (vue du Tubet); La montaña de Santa Victoria; Mont Sainte Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire with Tall Pine; Mont Saint[e] Victoire; Mont-Victoire; Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine; Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (598): 1886–87; Venturi revised: 1886–87; Venturi (455): 1885–87; Cooper: 1886–87, before No. 599; Gowing: before No. 599; Ratcliffe: after 1885
Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. (59.7 x 72.5 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3768, huile; une quantité de petits plans de verdure et de maisons, au loin Ste. Victoire, 60 x 73 cm (175 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 17, as Mont-Victoire.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Survey of Painting from Chardin to Derain, 1928.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 9, as Mont Saint[e] Victoire, lent by Phillips Gallery.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Modern French Art, March 11–31, 1930, no. 47, as Mont Sainte Victoire, lent by P. Rosenberg.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modern Masters from European and American Collections, January 26–March 4, 1940, no. 8, ill., pl. 18.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Great Paintings, February 4–March 5, 1944, no. 3, ill.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Aspects of French Civilization, 1945.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Landscape, November 8, 1945–January 1, 1946, no. 61, ill.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 34, ill. lent by Phillips Gallery.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, The Art of Cézanne, January 7–February 5, 1950, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin, lent by Phillips.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 14. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–September 16, 1984, no. 131, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin, 1885-87. 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).
Grand Palais, Paris, L’Impressionnisme et le paysage français, February 4–April 22, 1985, no. 131, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin, 1885-87.
The Hayward Gallery, London, Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection, Washington, May 19–August 14, 1988, no. 22, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire. Traveled to: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, August 27–November 6, 1988 (Meisterwerke aus der Phillips Collection, Washington); Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, November 30–February 15, 1988 (Obras maestras de la Colección Phillips de Washington).
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 41, ill.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 93, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 13, ill., pp. 56–57 (dated 1885–87).
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past, October 16, 2007–January 13, 2008, no. 13, ill. p. 178, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, shown in Atlanta and Denver only. Traveled to: Art Museum, Denver, February 23–May 25, 2008; Art Museum, Seattle, June 15–September 21, 2008.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 41, ill.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 4, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 110, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Up Close with Paul Cezanne, April 18–July 14, 2024.
Published References
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. opposite p. 152.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 177.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. "Cézanne." In Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst vol. 3. Munich: R. Piper & Co., [1924] (copyright 1915), pl. 500, as Mont-Victoire, c. 1885.
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 87, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1885.
Freund, Frank E. Washburn. "Von den amerikanischen Museen." Der Cicerone 20, no. 15 (1928), ill. p. 499.
Phillips, Duncan. "La 'Phillips Mémorial Gallery' à Washington." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 9 (November 1930), ill. between pp. 8 and 9.
Phillips, Duncan. "Modern Art, 1930." Art and Understanding 1, no. 2 (March 1930), p. 141, ill.
Benson, E.M. "Forms of Art: IV: Phases of Calligraphy." The American Magazine of Art 28, no. 6 (June 1935), p. 359, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 455, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
Waldemar-George. "L'art français et l'esprit de suite." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March-April 1934), ill. p. 22, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 150, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 83, fig. 4.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "…and the Modern Masters." Art News 38, no. 17 (January 27, 1940), p. 29, ill. in color.
Shoolman, Regina, and Charles Slatkin. The Enjoyment of Art in America. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1942, pl. 567.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 378, ill.
Watkins, Charles Law. The Language of Design. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1946, p. 166.
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les Peintres provençaux de Nicolas Froment à Paul Cezanné. Paris: La Jeune Parque, 1947, p. 85, ill.
Kimball, Fiske, and Lionello Venturi. Great Paintings in America: One Hundred and One Masterpieces in Color. New York: Coward-McCann, 1948, no. 90, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 82 (with photograph of motif).
Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950, fig. 129.
Carpenter, James. "Cézanne and Tradition." The Art Bulletin 33, no. 3 (September 1951), fig. 12.
Catalogue: A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 1952, pl. 69, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald, John. "Modern Fakes of Modern Pictures." The Art News 52, no. 1 (March 1953), p. 18, ill. (with forgery).
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 536, ill.
Lindsay, Jack. "Cézanne and Zola." Art and Artists 4, no. 6 (September 1969), p. 25, ill.
Wetenhall, John. "Cézanne's 'Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves.'" Pantheon, Internationale Zeitschrift für Kunst 40, no. 1 (January–March 1982), fig. 1, as Mont Sainte-Victoire with Tall Pine, c. 1890.
"Centro de Arte Reina Sofia: Obras maestras de la Colección Phillips de Washington." Información Cultural (Madrid), no. 67 (December 1988), ill. p. 2, as La montaña de Santa Victoria.
Stewart, Angus. "Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection, Washington." RSA Journal Vol. 136, No. 5384 (July 1988), p. 585, as Mt Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, p. 340, fig. 174.
Gowing, Lawrence. "Review: Cézanne and Poussin. Edinburgh." The Burlington Magazine 132, no. 1051 (October 1990), ill. p. 732, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 102, fig. 47.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 106, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 32-33.
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. 598, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
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. 47, fig. 8, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
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.
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. 160, fig. 12, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 223; vol. 2, p. 153, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 103, fig. 71.
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. 4.
Morton, Mary. "Courbet, Cézanne: L'art de paindre en série." In Courbet/Cézanne: La vérité en peinture. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 78, fig. 4.
Benedetti, Maria Teresa. "Gli artisti italiani e Cézanne." In Cézanne et gli artisti italiani del '900. Milan: Skira, 2013. Exhibition catalogue, p. 48, fig. 49.
Chédeville, François. "Le Viaduc dans la plaine de l'Arc III." Société Paul Cézanne (October 12, 2014).
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 52.
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. 14, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin (vue du Tubet), with photo of motif.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 212, ill.
Serres, Karen (ed.). The Courtauld Collection, A Vision of Impressionism. Paris and London: Fondation Louis Vuitton and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019. Exhibition catalogue (2019 Paris), p. 206, fig. 76.
Clark, T.J. If These Apples Should Fall, Cézanne and the Present. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2022, pl. 47.
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Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin, 1886–87 (FWN 234)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=581 (accessed on July 13, 2025).
