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Catalogue entry

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)
Vollard archives: photo no. 77, Annotated by Cezanne's son: Aix 1886

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Sergei Shchukin, Moscow (May 4, 1906)
First Museum of Modern Western Painting, Moscow (1918);
State Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow (1923);
Pushkin Museum, Moscow (1948)
Exhibition History
1904b Paris
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, Salle Cézanne, October 15–November 15, 1904, no. 15, as L'Aqueduc, lent by Vollard.
1926 Moscow
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 21.
1936c Paris
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 103, as Le Viaduc, lent by Moscow.
1939 Moscow
Moscow, French Landscape of the Nineteeth and Twentieth Century, 1939, p. 46.
1955 Moscow
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, French Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, 1955, p. 56.
1956a Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 10, ill.
1956b Leningrad
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, p. 55.
1966–67 Tokyo and traveling
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.
1972 Otterlo
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.
1972 Prague
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.
1973 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
1987 Lugano
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.
1997 Kasama
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 18, ill.
1998 St. Petersburg and traveling
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).
2002 Rome
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.
2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling
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.
2016–17 Paris
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 1904a
Marx, Roger. "Le Salon d'Automne." Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 32, periode (December 1904), p. 463, ill., as L'aqueduc.
Vollard 1914
Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Vollard, 1914, pl. 45.
Bernard 1925
Bernard, Emile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne: une conversation avec Cézanne: la méthode de Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1925, ill. opposite p. 141.
Ternovietz 1925
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 1926a
Bernard, Émile. Souvenirs sur Paul Cézanne, Une Conversation avec Cézanne. Paris: R.G. Michel, 1926, ill. opp. p. 12.
Museum of Modern Western Art 1928
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 548.
Réau 1929
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 1936
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 1936
Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 17 p. 11.
Rewald and Marschutz 1936
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Cézanne et la Provence." Le Point 4 (August 1936), frontispiece.
Huyghe 1936b
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 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 477, ill. vol. II, as L'aqueduc.
Besson 1938
Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?).
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 152, p. 261, ill. (analysis p. 347).
Cahiers d'Art 1950
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 4, listed p. 338, as Aqueduc.
Sterling 1957
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, pl. 85.
Balzer 1958
Balzer, Wolfgang. Der Französische Impressionismus: Die Hauptmeister in der Malerei. Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1958, no. 106, ill., as Der Viadukt, c. 1897-1900.
Erpel 1958
Erpel, Fritz. Paul Cézanne. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1958, p. 25.
Sterling 1958
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, pl. 85.
Descargues 1961
Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, p. 221, ill.
Feist 1963
Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 29, 44, pl. 53.
Sedova 1974
Sedova, Tat'jana Alekseevna. From Manet to Picasso. Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Izobrazitelʹnoe Iskusstvo, 1974, no. 28, ill.
Elgar 1975
Elgar, Frank. Cézanne. New York: Praeger, 1975, fig. 120.
Kuznetsova and Georgievskaia 1979
Kuznetsova, Irina Aleksandrovna, and Evgenia Georgievskaia. French Painting from the Pushkin Museum: 17th to 20th Century. Leningrad: Aurora, 1979, no. 177, ill.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, p. 134, pl. 17-19.
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. 163, ill.
Lévêque 1988
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 13, ill. in color.
Boardingham 1995
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 1995
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 101, ill.
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. 695, ill. vol. 2, as L'Aqueduc.
Schmidt 2004a
Schmidt, Bertram. Cézannes Lehre. Kiel: Ludwig, 2004, fig. 35.
Feilchenfeldt 2005c
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 2008
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 2014
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 2014e
Chédeville, François. "Le Viaduc dans la plaine de l'Arc IV." Société Paul Cézanne (October 15, 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. 56.
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. 27, ill., as Montagne Sainte-Victoire et viaduc du côté de Valcros, with photo of the motif.
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et viaduc du côté de Valcros, c.1890 (FWN 265). Site identified by Didier Bonfort and Pavel Machotka.
Site identified by Didier Bonfort and Pavel Machotka.
Photo: Didier Bonfort, 2013; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
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 March 29, 2024).