Catalogue entry

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

Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Keywords

Locales
Southern France:
- Le Tholonet »
Landscape
Natural motifs:
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire »
Landscape
Man-made motifs:
- road / path /route / chemin »
- turning road / route tournante »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Ivan Morosov, Moscow (Oct. 2, 1909);

First Museum of Modern Western Painting, Moscow (1918);

State Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow (1923);

Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (1948)

Exhibition History

1926 Moscow

Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, 1926, no. 22.

1936c Paris

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.

1936d London

New Burlington Galleries, London, Exhibition of Masters of French 19^th Century Painting, October 1–31, 1936, no. 95, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, lent by Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow.

1956a Leningrad

Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, Paul Cézanne: 50 Years since His Death, 1956, no. 20.

1956b Leningrad

Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russian Federation, French Art from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century, 1956, p. 56.

1967 Montreal

National Gallery of Canada, Montreal, Man and His World, Expo 67, April 28–October 27, 1967, no. 90.

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. 5, ill. in b/w, and col. pl. p.131.

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. 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.

1974 Leningrad

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.

1977–78 New York and traveling

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).

1978a Paris

Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 79, ill.

1985 Venice and traveling

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.

1986 Tokyo and traveling

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.

1990 Aix-en-Provence

Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 39, fig. 229.

1993–94 Essen and traveling

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.

1997 Kasama

Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 28, 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. 42, ill. Traveled to: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, October 15–November 18, 1998 (exhibition catalogue in Russian; text by Albert Kostenevich).

1999–2000 Riehen/Basel

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.

2006 Washington, D.C. and traveling

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.

2012 Tokyo

National Art Center, Tokyo, Cézanne: Paris-Provence, March 28–May 11, 2012, no. 43, ill.

2021–22 Paris

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

Meier-Graefe 1910

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1910, ill. p. 70.

Makovsky 1912

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 1913

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1913, ill. p. 70.

Meier-Graefe 1918a

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 1922

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne und sein Kreis: ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte: mit 171 Tonätzungen und einem Lichtdruck. Munich: R. Piper, 1922, ill. p. 172.

Meier-Graefe 1923

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Paul Cézanne. Munich: R. Piper, 1923, ill. p. 72.

Rivière 1923

Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1923, p. 213, listed.

Faure 1923a

Faure, Élie. P. Cézanne. Paris, 1923, pl. 48, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.

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), p. 468, ill. p. 467, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1890ies.

Meier-Graefe 1927a

Meier-Graefe, Julius. Cézanne. translated by J. Holroyd-Reece. London: Ernest Benn, 1927, pl. XLVI.

Museum of Modern Western Art 1928

Catalogue du Musée d'art occidental moderne. Moscow: Museum of Modern Western Art, 1928, no. 568.

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. 750.

Rewald and Marschutz 1935a

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 1936

Besson, George (introduction). "Paul Cézanne: 1839–1906." Estampes. Paris: Braun & Cie, August 1936 (no. 4), fig. 15 pp. 8-9.

Faure 1936

Faure, Élie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Braun, 1936, pl. 54.

Venturi 1936b

Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 663, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.

Huyghe 1936c

Huyghe, René. "L'Exposition Cézanne à l'Orangerie." Bulletin des musées de France 8, no. 6 (June 1936), p. 93.

Huyghe 1936d

Huyghe, René. Cézanne. Paris: Plon, Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1936, pl. 32.

Francastel 1937

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.

Novotny 1937

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. Vienna: Phaidon, 1937, pl. 82.

Besson 1938

Besson, George. Cézanne, 10 Planches en couleurs. Paris: Les Éditions Braune & Cie, 1938(?).

Novotny 1938

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 1.

Barnes and de Mazia 1939

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 1939c

Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 77.

Loran 1943

Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, p. 98, pl. XXII (with photograph of the motif).

Novotny 1947

Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne. London: Phaidon Press, 1947, pl. 82, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, vue de la route du Château Noir, 1895-1900.

Dorival 1948

Dorival, Bernard. Cézanne. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1948, pl. XII, , listed p. 179.

Rewald 1948a

Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Theories about Art." Art News 47, no. 7 (November 1948), p. 34, ill.

Rewald 1948b

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 101.

Cahiers d'Art 1950

"L'Art moderne français dans…le Musée d'Art Moderne Occidentale." Cahiers d'Art (1950), no. 24, listed p. 339, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire.

Guerry 1950

Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Flammarion, 1950, fig. 23.

Rewald 1950a

Rewald, John. Cézanne. London: Phoenix House, 1950, fig. 77.

Buddenberg 1951

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 1957

Sterling, Charles. Musée de l'Ermitage: La Peinture française de Poussin à nos jours. Paris: Cercle d'art, 1957, fig. 25.

Rewald 1958

Rewald, John. Cézanne: Paysages. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1958, pl. 13.

Sterling 1958

Sterling, Charles. Great French Painting in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Abrams, 1958, fig. 33.

Descargues 1961

Descargues, Pierre. The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1961, p. 218, listed.

Feist 1963

Feist, Peter Heinz. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1963, pp. 20, 38, pl. 73.

Guerry 1966

Guerry, Liliane. Cézanne et l'expression de l'espace. Paris: Albin-Michel, 1966, pl. 45.

Murphy 1968

Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 155.

Barskaya 1975b

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 1977b

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 1983a

Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, p. 146, pl. 47-49.

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. 178, ill.

Pickvance and Takumi 1986

Pickvance, Ronald, and Hideo Takumi. Cézanne. Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1986. Exhibition catalogue, p. 77, pl. 36.

Rewald 1986b

Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 240, ill.

Lévêque 1988

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Düchting 1989

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Kostenevich 1989

Kostenevich, Albert. From Monet to Picasso: Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Hermitage. Leningrad: Avrora, 1989, p. 455, fig. 62.

Hoog 1990

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Coutagne 1995

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Lartigue 1995

Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 149, ill.

Patin 1995

Patin, Sylvie. Cézanne. Paris: Editions Hazan, 1995, p. 81.

Schmitt 1995

Schmitt, Evmarie. Cézanne in der Provence. München and New York: Prestel, 1995, p. 87.

Cahn 1995b

Cahn, Isabelle. Paul Cézanne. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 1995, p. 112, ill.

Coutagne 1995b

Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 34-35, c. 1896-98.

Coutagne et al. 1996

Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 162.

Rewald 1996

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Smith 1998

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 2002

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 2003

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 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.

Coutagne 2011e

Coutagne, Denis. "Il paesaggio in Cézanne." In Cézanne: Les ateliers du midi. Milan: Skira, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 52, fig. 30.

Nagaï 2016

Nagaï, Takanori. "Cézanne and Jas de Bouffan." In Le "basho" dans l'art moderne français. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, p. 137, ill.

Baldassari, ed. 2021

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.

La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au-dessus de la route du Tholonet, 1896–98 (FWN 349). Route du Tholonet with la montagne Sainte-Victoire in the distance.
John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.

Route du Tholonet with la montagne Sainte-Victoire in the distance. John Rewald Archive, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.

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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 23, 2024).