The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An online catalogue raisonné under the direction of Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash
Catalogue entry
FWN 265
Montagne Sainte-Victoire et viaduc du côté de Valcros
c.1890
Alternate titles: L'acquedotto; L'Aqueduc; Le Viaduc; 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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 77, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Aix 1886
Provenance
Exhibition History
Grand Palais, Paris, Salon d'Automne, October 15–November 15, 1904 (exhibition catalogue) For the first time potographs of works by Cézanne were displayed in four frames each containing nine images, nos. 24, 2045-2047, no. 15, as L'Aqueduc, lent by Vollard.
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 21.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936 (exhibition catalogue, 2nd revised edition)
A major exhibition commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the artist's death. Catalogue notes by Charles Sterling, foreword by Jacques-Émile Blanche, and preface by Paul Jamot, no. 103, as Le Viaduc, lent by Moscow.
A major exhibition commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the artist's death. Catalogue notes by Charles Sterling, foreword by Jacques-Émile Blanche, and preface by Paul Jamot, no. 103, as Le Viaduc, lent by Moscow.
Moscow, French 19th–20th Century Landscape, 1939, no number, p. 46.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 10, ill.
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.
Narodni Galerie, Prague, Masterpieces from the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, 1972, no. 6.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings from the U.S.S.R., March 31–April 29, 1973, no. 2, ill. Traveled to: Knoedler Gallery, New York, May 3–June 3, 1973. Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, June 15–July 8, 1973.
Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, Impressionisten und Post-Impressionisten aus sowjeischen Muséen II, 1987, no. 16, ill.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997 (exhibition catalogue; text in Japanese), no. 18, ill.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998 (exhibition catalogue; text in Russian. The second half of the catalogue is devoted to works by Russian artists who were influenced directly by Cézanne's paintings.), 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 dei Vittoriano, Rome, Cézanne: Il padre dei moderni, March 7–July 7, 2002 (exhibition catalogue; curated by Maria Teresa Benedetti), listed p. 176, ill, as L'acquedotto, lent by Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006. Curated by Philip Conisbee and Denis Coutagne. (exhibition catalogue), no. 71, ill., (dated c. 1885–90). Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, Icons of Modern Art, The Shchukin Collection, October 22, 2016–March 5, 2017 (exhibition catalogue), 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.
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 45.
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 141.
Ternovetz, Boris Nikolaevich. "Le Musée d'Art moderne de Moscou (Ancienne Collections Stchoukine et Morosoff)." Amour de l'art 12 (December 1925), p. 471, ill. as Paysage de Provence.
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 12.
Réau, Louis. Catalogue d'art français dans les musées russes. Paris: A. Colin, 1929, no. 730.
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), frontispiece.
John Rewald et al. "Cézanne." L'amour de l'art 17, no. 5 (May 1936), fig. 69.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 477, ill. vol. II as L'aqueduc.
Benesch, Otto. "Cézanne." Die Kunst 75 (1937), p. 73, ill.
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).
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, pl. 85.
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1958, p. 25.
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.
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 29, 44, pl. 53.
Sedova, Tat'jana Alekseevna. From Manet to Picasso. Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Izobrazitelʹnoe Iskusstvo, 1974, no. 28, ill.
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 120.
Barskaya, Anna. Paul Cézanne. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1975, pl. 10.
Kuznetsova, Irina Aleksandrovna, and Evgenia Georgievskaia. French Painting from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora, 1979, no. 177, ill.
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) Vol. CXLII (October 1995), fig. 6 p. 36 as L'Aqueduc.
De Lartigue, Charles. 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.
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 35.
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.
Record last updated May 31, 2017. 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. "Montagne Sainte-Victoire et viaduc du côté de Valcros, c.1890 (FWN 265)." The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. http://www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=673 (accessed on February 22, 2019).