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© The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania, USA/ The Bridgeman Art Library
FWN 296
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
1892–95
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (et la Bastide Vieille); La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vue de Bellevue; La Vallée de l'Arc; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mountainous landscape; Mt. Ste. Victoire; Paysage montagneux; Sainte-Victoire et Bastide Vieille
Rewald (767): 1892–95; Venturi revised: 1886–87; Venturi (457): 1885–87; Cooper: 1886–87
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (73 x 92 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 21
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (BF13)

Keywords

Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Cornelis Hoogendijk, Amsterdam
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (1920)
[Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris]
Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Merion (July 1, 1920);
Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia
Exhibition History
1911 Amsterdam
Moderne Kunstkring, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Internationale tentoonstelling van moderne kunst, October 6–November 5, 1911, no. 8 (?), as Paysage montagneux, Hoogendijk collection.
1993–95 Washington, D.C. and traveling
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation, May 2–August 15, 1993, no number, pp. 136–37, ill. Traveled to: Musèe d'Orsay, Paris, November 6, 1993–January 2, 1994; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, January 21–April 3, 1994; Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, April 24–August 16, 1994; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 17–December 31, 1994; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, January 29–April 1995; Haus der Kunst, Munich, June 23–October 22, 1995.
Published References
Van Riemsdijk 1910
Riemsdijk, Barthold Willem Floris van. Catalogue of the Pictures, Miniatures, Pastels, Framed Drawings etc. at the Rijks-Museum at Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Roeloffzen-Hübner and Van Santen, 1910, p. 425, no. 688A, as Mountainous landscape.
Rijksmuseum 1911
Catalogue des tableaux, miniatures, pastels, dessins encadrés, etc. du Musée de l'État à Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Roeloffzen-Hübner et Van Santen, 1911, p. 99, no. 688A, as Paysage montagneux.
Gasquet 1920
Gasquet, Joachim. "Ce qu'il m'a dit … Le motif." L'Amour de l'art 1, no. 8 (December 1920), ill. p. 258, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, [photo Rosenberg].
Vauvrecy and Cezanne 1920
Vauvrecy; Paul Cézanne. "Vie de Cézanne'';''Lettres de Cézanne." L'Esprit nouveau: revue internationale d'esthétique, no. 2 (1920), ill. p. 139.
Fontainas and Vauxcelles 1922
Fontainas, André and Louis Vauxcelles. "Paul Cézanne." Histoire générale de l'art français de la Révolution à nos jours: la peinture, la gravure, le dessin. Paris: Librairie de France, 1922, ill. p. 225, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Watson 1923
Watson, Forbes. "The Barnes Foundation, Part I." The Arts 3, no. 1 (January 1923), p. 16, ill.
Ozenfant and Jeanneret 1924
Ozenfant, Amedée, and Charles Edouard Jeanneret. La Peinture moderne. Paris: Les Éditions Crès, 1924, p. 32.
Barnes 1925b
Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925, p. 486, ill. p. 236.
Fry 1927a
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of His Development. New York: Macmillan, 1927, p. 75, fig. 39, pl. XXIX.
Gasquet 1930b
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1930, ill. opp. p. 96.
Barnes and de Mazia 1933
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, pp. 53, 407, 456.
Huyghe 1933
Huyghe, René. "Les origines de la peinture contemporaine: Genèse et position de l'art moderne." L'Amour de l'art 14, no. 1 (January 1933), p. 14, fig. 13 p. 16, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Venturi 1935b
Venturi, Lionello. "Paul Cézanne." L'Arte 6, nos. 4 and 5 (July 1935), p. 387, fig. 12 (detail).
Tourrette 1936
Tourrette, Gilles de la. "Paul Cézanne." Art et les Artistes 32 (July 1936), p. 335, ill., as La Vallée de l'Arc, dated circa 1892.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 457, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald 1936e
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 62, with photograph of motif.
Novotny 1937
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 50.
Novotny 1938
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, frontispiece, list of motifs: no. 81.
Barnes and de Mazia 1939
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 109, ill. p. 228, analysis pp. 355–56.
Cogniat 1939a
Cogniat, Raymond. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1939, pl. 51.
Loran 1943
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 124–26, pl. XXXVII (with photograph of the motif).
Bazin 1947
Bazin, Germain. L'Epoque impressionniste. Paris: P. Tisné, 1947, pl. 65, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1904-06.
Cheney 1947
Cheney, Sheldon. The Story of Modern Art. New York: Viking Press, 1947, p. 233, ill.
Novotny 1947
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 48, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vue de Bellevue, 1885-87.
Fry 1952
Fry, Roger. Cézanne: A Study of his Developement. London: Hogarth Press, 1952, p. 75, pl. XXIX fig. 39, as Mt. Ste. Victoire.
Williams 1954
Williams, Forest. "Cézanne and French Phenomenology." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 12, no. 4 (June 1954), p. 482.
De Mazia 1970
De Mazia, Violette. "What to Look for in Art." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 1, no. 2 (Autumn 1970), pl. 3.
Sweeney 1972
Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1972), p. 32, pl. 32.
De Mazia 1974b
De Mazia, Violette. "Expression." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1974), pl. 59.
De Mazia 1975a
De Mazia, Violette. "The Decorative Aspect in Art." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 6, no. 1 (Spring 1975), p. 30, pl. 52.
De Mazia 1975b
De Mazia, Violette. "Three Aspects of Art." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 6, no. 2 (Autumn1975), pp. 47–48, pl. 45.
De Mazia 1976a
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 1 (Spring 1976), pl. 97.
De Mazia 1976b
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 7, no. 2 (Autumn 1976), pp. 16–17, pl. 7.
De Mazia 1977a
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum – Cont'd: Part III." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 1 (Spring 1977), p. 12, pl. 106.
De Mazia 1977b
De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum, Cont'd: Part IV." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977), p. 19, pl. 90.
De Mazia 1981–83b
De Mazia, Violette. "The Barnes Foundation: The Display of Its Art Collection." Vistas 2, no. 2 (1981–83), pl. 100.
De Mazia 1984–86
De Mazia, Violette. "Tradition: An Inquiry – A Few Thoughts." Vistas 3, no. 1 (1984–86), p. 97, pl. 77.
Rewald 1989
Rewald, John. Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891–1921. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Thames & Hudson, 1989, pp. 271–72, fig. 128.
Verdi 1990
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 31.
Coutagne et al 1990b
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, p. 321, ill.
Gasquet 1991
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 14, ill.
Heijbroek 1991
Heijbroek, J. "Het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst van Willem Steenhoff. Werkelijkheid of utopie?" Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 39 (1991), fig. 26.
Verdi 1992
Verdi, Richard. Cézanne. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992, p. 128, fig. 106.
Henkels 1993
Henkels, Herbert. "Cézanne en Van Gogh in het Rijksmuseum voor Moderne Kunst in Amsterdam: De collectie van Cornelis Hoogendijk (1866–1911)." Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 41, nos. 3–4 (1993), fig. 95.
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. 767, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Tempel 2009
Tempel, Benno. "Vader van ons allen: Cézanne en de moderne kunst in Nederland." In Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan: in nieuw perspectief. Zwolle: Waanders, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 4, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Dolkart and Lucy 2012
Dolkart, Judith, Martha Lucy. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, p. 96, ill. p. 86, comments by Judith Dolkart.
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. 62, as Sainte-Victoire et Bastide Vieille.
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. 29, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (et la Bastide Vieille), with photo of the motif (the house from the painting superimposed over the photo).
Challis 2020
Challis, Davi. "Moving Mountains: Paris-Based Dealers and the Economics of Translocation." In Pioneers of the Global Art Market, Paris-Based Dealer Networks, 1850–1950. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020, fig. 4.1 and color plate 8.
Dombrowski, Ireson and Patry 2021
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, no. 22, pp. 138–46, as Mont Sainte-Victoire (catalogue notes by N. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer).
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1892–95 (FWN 296). Recent photograph of the motif
Recent photograph of the motif
Photo: Courtesy Didier Bonfort

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Record last updated November 3, 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, 1892–95 (FWN 296)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=744 (accessed on April 26, 2024).