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 265
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et viaduc du côté de Valcros
c.1890
Alternate titles: Akvadukt; Aqueduc; Der Viadukt; L'acquedotto; L'Aqueduc; Le Viaduc; Montagne Sainte-Victoire et viaduc du côté de Valcros; Paysage de Provence; Pins devant la Sainte-Victoire depuis la colline de Valcros
Rewald (695): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1886–87; Venturi (477): 1885–87
Oil on canvas
35 13/16 x 28 5/16 in. (91 x 72 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3466, huile; grands arbres verts se détachant sur un ciel bleu; au fond on devine des coteaux de Ste. Victoire, 92 x 73 cm (300 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 15, as L'Aqueduc, lent by Vollard.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 103, as Le Viaduc, lent by Moscow.
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, French Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1955, p. 56.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 10, ill.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, p. 55.
National Museum, Tokyo, Masterpieces of Modern Painting from the U.S.S.R., October 15–December 25, 1966, no. 55, ill. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, January 15–February 28, 1967.
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands, From van Gogh to Picasso: Nineteenth and twentieth - century Paintings and Drawings from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad, April 30–July 16, 1972, no. 1, ill. in b/w.
Narodni Galerie, Sternberg Palace, Prague, Od Poussina k Picassovi : Mistrovska díla Muzeá A. S. Puškina v Moskvě (From Poussin to Picasso: Masterpieces of the A.S. Pushkin Museum in Moscow), October 17–November 26, 1972, no. 6, ill., as Akvadukt.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings from the U.S.S.R.: lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad [and] the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, March 31–April 29, 1973, no. 2, ill., as L'Aqueduc, 1887-90. Traveled to: Knoedler Gallery, New York, May 3–June 3, 1973; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, June 15–July 8, 1973; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, July 18–August 12, 1973; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, August 22–September 16, 1973; The Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, Detroit, August 26–October 21, 1973.
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Impressionisten und Post-Impressionisten aus sowjetischen Museen II, August 9–November 15, 1987, no. 16, ill., as L'Aqueduc, c. 1885-87.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 18, ill.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 22, ill., (dated 1886–87). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002, listed p. 176, ill., as L'acquedotto, lent by Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 71, ill., (dated c. 1885–90). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, Icônes de l'art moderne, La collection Chtchoukine (Icons of Modern Art, The Shchukin Collection), October 22, 2016–March 5, 2017, pp. 207, 438, ill.
Published References
Marx, Roger. "Le Salon d'Automne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 32, periode (December 1904), p. 463, ill., as L'aqueduc.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 141.
Ternovietz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Anciennes collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." L'Amour de l'art 6, no. 12 (December 1925), ill. p. 471, as Paysage de Provence.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 12.
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 548.
Réau, Louis. "III: Musée d'art occidental moderne à Moscou." In Catalogue de l'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 730.
Benesch, Otto. "Cézanne: zur 30. Wiederkehr seines Todestages am 22. Oktober." Die Kunst für Alle 52, no. 3 (December 1936), ill. p. 65, as Der Viadukt, c. 1897-1900.
Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 17 p. 11.
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), frontispiece.
Huyghe, René. "Cézanne et son oeuvre." L'Amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 69 p. 181, as Le Viaduc, c. 1887.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 477, ill. vol. II, as L'aqueduc.
Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?).
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 152, p. 261, ill. (analysis p. 347).
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 4, listed p. 338, as Aqueduc.
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, pl. 85.
Balzer, Wolfgang. Der Französische Impressionismus: Die Hauptmeister in der Malerei. Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1958, no. 106, ill., as Der Viadukt, c. 1897-1900.
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, pl. 85.
Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, p. 221, ill.
Sedova, Tat'jana Alekseevna. From Manet to Picasso. Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Izobrazitelʹnoe Iskusstvo, 1974, no. 28, ill.
Kuznetsova, Irina Aleksandrovna, and Evgenia Georgievskaia. French Painting from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora, 1979, no. 177, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, p. 134, pl. 17-19.
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. 163, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 13, ill. in color.
Boardingham, Robert. "Cézanne and the 1904 Salon d 'Automne, 'Un chef d'une école nouvelle.'" Apollo (London) 142, no. 404 (October 1995), fig. 6 p. 36, as L'Aqueduc, 1885.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 101, ill.
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. 695, ill. vol. 2, as L'Aqueduc.
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Motive: Versuch einer neuen Ordnung." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 211, ill.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 236; vol. 2, p. 160, as L'Aqueduc.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 122, fig. 40a, with color photo of motif, fig. 40b, as Pins devant la Sainte-Victoire depuis la colline de Valcros.
Chédeville, François. "Le Viaduc dans la plaine de l'Arc IV." Société Paul Cézanne (October 15, 2014).
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 56.
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. 27, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire et viaduc du côté de Valcros, with photo of the motif.
Record last updated November 4, 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 et viaduc du côté de Valcros, c.1890 (FWN 265)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=673 (accessed on July 14, 2025).
