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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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 296, Annotated by Cezanne;s son: Aix 1888

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Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne (May 3, 1913)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (1925)
[Wildenstein Galleries, New York]
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (June 5, 1925)
Exhibition History
1913 Darmstadt
Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, Sammlung G.F. Reber, mid-May–mid-June, 1913, no. 17, as Mont-Victoire.
1928 Washington, D.C.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Survey of Painting from Chardin to Derain, 1928.
1928d New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Paul Cézanne, January 1928, no. 9, as Mont Saint[e] Victoire, lent by Phillips Gallery.
1930 Providence
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.
1938c New York
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, Cézanne, March 28–April 19, 1938, no. 15.
1940c New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modern Masters from European and American Collections, January 26–March 4, 1940, no. 8, ill., pl. 18.
1944 Toronto
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Great Paintings, February 4–March 5, 1944, no. 3, ill.
1945b New Haven
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Aspects of French Civilization, 1945.
1945–46 Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Landscape, November 8, 1945–January 1, 1946, no. 61, ill.
1947b New York
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 34, ill. lent by Phillips Gallery.
1950 Minneapolis
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.
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. 14. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
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. 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).
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.
1988–89b London and traveling
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).
1990 Edinburgh
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 41, ill.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
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.
1997–98 Stockholm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Cézanne i blickpunkten, October 17, 1997–January 11, 1998, no. 13, ill., pp. 56–57 (dated 1885–87).
2007–08 Atlanta and traveling
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.
2012 Tokyo
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 41, ill.
2012–13 Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity, October 25, 2012–February 17, 2013, no. 4, ill.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 110, ill. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
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. opposite p. 152.
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. 177.
Meier-Graefe 1924
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.
Phillips 1926
Phillips, Duncan. A Collection in the Making. New York: E. Weyhe, 1926, pl. 45.
Pfister 1927
Pfister, Kurt. Cézanne: Gestalt, Werk, Mythos. Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1927, fig. 87, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1885.
Freund 1928
Freund, Frank E. Washburn. "Von den amerikanischen Museen." Der Cicerone 20, no. 15 (1928), ill. p. 499.
Phillips 1930a
Phillips, Duncan. "La 'Phillips Mémorial Gallery' à Washington." Formes: revue internationale des arts plastiques, no. 9 (November 1930), ill. between pp. 8 and 9.
Gasquet 1930b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1930, ill. opp. p. 100.
Phillips 1930b
Phillips, Duncan. "Modern Art, 1930." Art and Understanding 1, no. 2 (March 1930), p. 141, ill.
Phillips 1931
Phillips, Duncan. The Artist Sees Differently. New York: E. Weyhe, 1931, pl. 54.
Benson 1935
Benson, E.M. "Forms of Art: IV: Phases of Calligraphy." The American Magazine of Art 28, no. 6 (June 1935), p. 359, ill.
Venturi 1935a
Venturi, Lionello. I'Impressionismo. 1935, fig. 15, as Sainte-Victoire, dated 1987.
Venturi 1936b
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 1937
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 1938
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 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 83, fig. 4.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 54.
Frankfurter 1940c
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "…and the Modern Masters." Art News 38, no. 17 (January 27, 1940), p. 29, ill. in color.
Shoolman and Slatkin 1942
Shoolman, Regina, and Charles Slatkin. The Enjoyment of Art in America. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1942, pl. 567.
Rewald 1946
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 378, ill.
Watkins 1946
Watkins, Charles Law. The Language of Design. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1946, p. 166.
Vaudoyer 1947
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les Peintres provençaux de Nicolas Froment à Paul Cezanné. Paris: La Jeune Parque, 1947, p. 85, ill.
Dorival 1948
Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. 90, listed p. 159.
Kimball and Venturi 1948
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 1948b
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 82 (with photograph of motif).
Rewald 1950a
Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 50.
Venturi 1950a
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 1951
Carpenter, James. "Cézanne and Tradition." The Art Bulletin 33, no. 3 (September 1951), fig. 12.
Phillips Collection 1952
Catalogue: A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 1952, pl. 69, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald 1953
Rewald, John. "Modern Fakes of Modern Pictures." The Art News 52, no. 1 (March 1953), p. 18, ill. (with forgery).
Raynal 1954
Raynal, Maurice. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1954, p. 66, ill.
Novotny 1961
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon, 1961, pl. 24.
Rewald 1961
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 536, ill.
Lindsay 1969a
Lindsay, Jack. "Cézanne and Zola." Art and Artists 4, no. 6 (September 1969), p. 25, ill.
Elderfield 1971
Elderfield, John. "Drawing in Cézanne." Artforum 9, no. 10 (June 1971), p. 55, ill.
Venturi 1978
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne. Geneva: Skira, 1978, p. 88, ill.
Wetenhall 1982
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.
Información Cultural 1988
"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 1988
Stewart, Angus. "Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection, Washington." RSA Journal Vol. 136, No. 5384 (July 1988), p. 585, as Mt Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald 1989
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 1990
Gowing, Lawrence. "Review: Cézanne and Poussin. Edinburgh." The Burlington Magazine 132, no. 1051 (October 1990), ill. p. 732, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Coutagne 1990c
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 102, fig. 47.
Naubert-Riser 1992
Naubert-Riser, Constance. Cézanne. London: Studio Editions, 1994, p. 91.
Arrouye 1995
Arrouye, Jean. Cézanne: Paris, Provence. Paris: Textuel, 1995, p. 88-89, ill.
Lartigue 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 106, ill.
Coutagne 1995b
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 32-33.
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. 598, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
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. 47, fig. 8, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin.
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.
Ely 2006b
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 2008
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 2008
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 103, fig. 71.
Novotny 2011
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 2013
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 2013b
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 2014d
Chédeville, François. "Le Viaduc dans la plaine de l'Arc III." Société Paul Cézanne (October 12, 2014).
Coutagne 2015
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 2016
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 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 212, ill.
Serres et al 2019
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 2022
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 March 28, 2024).