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 349
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au-dessus de la route du Tholonet
1896–98
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vue de la route du Château Noir; Le Mont Sainte-Victoire au-dessus de la route du Tholonet; Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Paysage de Ste. Victoire; Paysage. Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Sainte-Victoire; Vue de la Montagne Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (899): 1896–98; Venturi revised: 1890–95; Venturi (663): 1894–1900; Rivière: 1885
Oil on canvas
30 11/16 x 39 in. (78 x 99 cm)
Vollard archives: photo no. 439, Annotated by Cezanne's son: circa 1890
Provenance
Exhibition History
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Cézanne, May 20–October 11, 1936, no. 108, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Moscow; exhibited for the first time.
New Burlington Galleries, London, Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting, October 1–31, 1936, no. 95, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 20.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, p. 56.
National Gallery of Canada, Montreal, Man and His World, Expo 67, April 28–October 27, 1967, no. 90.
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. 5, ill. in b/w, and col. pl. p.131.
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. 5, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1896-98. 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.
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, [Impressionist paintings on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first exhibition in 1874], 1974, no. 57, ill. 1900.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 10, pl. 116. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 79, ill.
Museo Correr alla Napoleonica, Venice, Italy, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso: 42 capolavori dai musei sovietici., February 23–April 14, 1985, no. 10. Traveled to: Musei Capitolini, Rome, April 23–June 10, 1985.
Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, September 18–October 7, 1986, no. 36, ill. Traveled to: Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, October 10–November 9, 1986; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, November 15–December 4, 1986.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 39, fig. 229.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Morozov and Shchukin: The Russian Collectors, June 25–October 31, 1993, no. 32, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, November 30, 1993–January 30, 1994; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, February 16–April 16, 1994.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 28, ill.
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde, August 9–September 24, 1998, no. 42, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne und die Moderne, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000, no. 24, ill., p. 53, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire au-dessus de la route du Tholonet.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 82, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 43, ill.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne, September 22, 2021–February 22, 2022, p. 490, ill. p. 277, as Paysage. Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Published References
Makovsky, Serguei. "[French artists in I. Morosov's collection, Moscow]." Apollon (St. Petersburg) 3, nos. 3–4 (March 1912), listed p. 23, as Paysage de Ste. Victoire.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 127 Tonätzungen und fünfzehn Heliogravüren. Munich: R. Piper, 1918, ill. p. 141.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 172.
Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 213, listed.
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), p. 468, ill. p. 467, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1890ies.
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XLVI.
Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 568.
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. 750.
Rewald, John, and Léo Marschutz. "Plastique et réalité: Cézanne au Château Noir." L'Amour de l'art 16, no. 1 (January 1935), p. 19, no. 1, fig. 8 p. 18, with photograph of motif, as Vue de la Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 15 pp. 8-9.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 663, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Huyghe, René. "L'Exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Bulletin des musées de France 8, no. 6 (June 1936), p. 93.
Francastel, Pierre. L'impressionnisme: Les origines de la peinture moderne de Monet à Gauguin. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1937, fig. 19, as Sainte-Victoire, dated 1902; Moscow.
Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?).
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 1.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 183, p. 282, ill. (analysis pp. 347–48).
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 77.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 98, pl. XXII (with photograph of the motif).
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 82, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vue de la route du Château Noir, 1895-1900.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Theories about Art." Art News 47, no. 7 (November 1948), p. 34, ill.
"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 24, listed p. 339, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Buddenberg, Else. "Rilkes Cezanne Begegnung.Zum 25. Todestag von Rainer Maria Rilke." Das Kunstwerk: Zeitschrift für moderne Kunst 5, no. 4 (1951), p. 36, ill.
Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, fig. 25.
Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, fig. 33.
Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, p. 218, listed.
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 155.
Barskaya, Anna. French Painting, Second Half of the 19th and to Early 20th Century, The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. Leningrad and New York: Aurora Art Publishers and Harry N. Abrams, 1975, no. 42, ill.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 85, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, p. 146, pl. 47-49.
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. 178, ill.
Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 77, pl. 36.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 209, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 216, ill.
Kostenevich, Albert. From Monet to Picasso: Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Hermitage. Leningrad: Avrora, 1989, p. 455, fig. 62.
Hoog, Michel. "L'Oeuvre." In Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 202, fig. 182.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 149, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 34-35, c. 1896-98.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 162.
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. 899, ill. vol. 2 and p. 61, ill. col. vol. 1, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au-dessus de la route du Tholonet.
Smith, Paul. "Joachim Gasquet, Virgil and Cézanne's Landscape: My Beloved Golden Age." Apollo (London) 148, no. 439 (October 1998), fig. 8, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire au-dessus de la route du Tholonet.
Dittmann, Lorenz. "Cézanne un der Cézanneismus der Künstlergruppe 'Karo-Bube.'" In Die russische Avantgarde und Paul Cézanne. Bönen: Kettler, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, p. 44, fig. 4.
Keyes, George S. "Reconsideration of Late Variants of Cézanne's 'Theme of Mont Sainte-Victoire.'" Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts vol. 77, no. 1/2 (2003), p. 35, fig. 4.
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.
Coutagne, Denis. "Il paesaggio in Cézanne." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 52, fig. 30.
Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 137, ill.
Baldassari, Anne, ed. La collection Morozov: icônes de l'art moderne. Paris: Editions Gallimard and Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2021. Exhibition catalogue, p. 490 (listed), ill. p. 277.
Record last updated March 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 au-dessus de la route du Tholonet, 1896–98 (FWN 349)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=873 (accessed on April 27, 2024).
