loading 
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)
Catalogue entry
FWN 295
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Infernets
c.1895
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vu des Infernets; La Sainte-Victoire vue des Infernets; Sainte Victoire bei Aix; Sainte Victoire bei Marseille
Rewald (762): c.1895; Venturi revised: 1890–95; Venturi (664): 1894–1900; Reff: probably end of 1890s (MoMA)
Oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 39 5/8 in. (81 x 100.5 cm)
Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?)
Bernhard Koehler, Berlin;
Bernhard Koehler, Jr., Berlin
Exhibition History
1909b Berlin
Paul Cassirer, Berlin, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, November 17–December 12, 1909, no. 41, as Sainte Victoire bei Marseille, lent by Private collection [Bernhard Koehler].1912 Cologne
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Cologne, Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, May 25–September 30, 1912, no. 141, pl. 21, as Sainte Victoire bei Aix, lent by B. Koehler.1995–96 St. Petersburg
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Hidden Treasures Revealed: Impressionist Masterpieces and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1995–96, no. 52, ill., pp. 204–07.1998 St. Petersburg and traveling
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 41, ill., (dated c. 1897–98). Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).Published References
Mahlberg 1912
Mahlberg, Paul. "Die internationale Sonderbundausstellung in Köln." Kunst und Künstler 10, no. 10 (1912), ill. p. 511.Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 664, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.Machotka 1996
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 136, fig. 126, with photograph of the motif, fig. 125, as La Sainte-Victoire vue des Infernets, dated c. 1898.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. 762, ill. vol. 2 and p. 60, ill. col. vol. 1, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vu des Infernets.Schmidt-Bauer 2001
Schmidt-Bauer, Silvia. "Die Sammlung Bernhard Koehler." 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, p. 272, fig. 56 p. 273.Société Paul Cézanne 2005
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 95, ill. with photo of motif (c. 1976), p. 94, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Infernets.Feilchenfeldt 2005e
Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Cézannes Gemälde: Formate und Themen, Echtheitsfragen." In "By Appointment Only": Schriften zu Kunst und Kunsthandel, Cézanne und Van Gogh. Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2005, p. 236, ill.Schaefer 2012
Schaefer, Barbara, ed. "Sonderbundausstellung 1912 - Rekonstruktion." 1912, Mission Moderne: die Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes. Cologne: Wienend, 2012. Exhibition catalogue, no. 141, p. 555.Echte and Feilchenfeldt 2013d
Echte, Bernhard and Feilchenfeldt, Walter. "Kollektion Paul Cézanne: 17. November bis 12. Dezember 1909." Kunstsalon Cassirer: Die Ausstellungen 1908-1910. vol. 4, "Ganz eigenartige neue Werte". Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2013, p. 311, ill.Machotka 2014
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 158, fig. 57a, with color photo of motif, fig. 57b, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Infernets.Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 2023
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina M. "Cézanne nostalgique: Nostalgia, Memory, Illusion." Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2023, fig. 19.
Photo: Paul Smith
Photograph of the motif
Photo: Didier Bonfort
Site identified by Pavel Machotka.
Photo: Pavel Machotka, 1977; © Courtesy Pavel Machotka Archive
Record last updated April 14, 2023. 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 vue des Infernets, c.1895 (FWN 295)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=739 (accessed on April 26, 2024).
