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 352
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves
1902–06
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; La Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves; Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves
Rewald (911): 1902–06; Venturi revised: 1902–6; Venturi (799): 1904–6
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in. (65 x 81 cm)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 4480, paysage. panorama. Village et Ste. Victoire, 65 x 81 cm (5000/9000 frs)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 66, ill. lent by Tyson.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, May 20–September 15, 1947, no. 51.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 110, ill. lent by Tyson. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
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. 59, pl. 121. 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. 86.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 21, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 184, p. 478, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves, lent by Private collection.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 123, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
National Gallery, London, After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, March 25–August 13, 2023, no. 7, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 799, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald, John. "A propos du catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Paul Cézanne et de la chronologie de cette œuvre." La Renaissance (Paris), vol. 20, nos. 3-4 (March–April 1937), p. 55, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 89.
Rewald, John. "The Collection of Carroll S. Tyson, Jr, Philadelphia, U.S.A." Connoisseur 134 (September 1954), p. 65, ill.
Kramer, Hilton. "Modern Art at the Turn of the Century." Arts Yearbook 1 (1957), p. 36, ill.
Miura, Shumon, Mitsuhiko Kuroe, and Shūji Takashina. Cézanne. Tokyo: Chūō Kōronsha, 1972, pl. 54.
Schapiro, Meyer. Paul Cézanne. Translated by Louis-Marie Ollivier. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1973, pl. 47, with comments.
Turner, Norman. "Subjective Curvature in Late Cézanne." The Art Bulletin 63, no. 4 (December 1981), fig. 6.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 148.
Butler, Marigene. "An Investigation of the Materials and Technique Used by Paul Cézanne." American Institute for Conservation. 1984, ill.
Gasquet, Joachim. Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne. Translated by C. Pemberton. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991, p. 144, ill.
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 472, fig. 3.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 118, fig. 93, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves.
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. 911, ill. vol. 2, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves.
Bach, Friedrich Teja. "The Stake in the Pictorial Flesh: Disruptions in Cézanne's Oeuvre." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 65, fig. 4, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves.
Société Paul Cézanne. P. Cézanne: Les sites provençaux. Edited by Pavel Machotka. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2005, p. 128, ill. with photos of motif (n.d. and c. 1976), p. 129, as La Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves.
Conisbee, Philip. "The Late Paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 285, fig. 8, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves.
Bernstein, Roberta. "Cézanne and Johns: 'At Every Point in Nature There Is Something to See.'" In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 478, pl. 184, as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves.
Shiff, Richard. "Lucky Cézanne (Cézanne Tychique)." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 57, ill., p. 478, pl. 184, as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. Prague: Arbor Vitae, 2014, p. 203, fig. 75g, with black and white and color photos of motif, pp. 198–99, figs. 75a-c, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves.
Smith, Paul. "Looking slowly with Cezanne." The Burlington Magazine 165 (April 2023), fig. 14, with photo of motif by the author, fig. 13.
Record last updated June 8, 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 Lauves, 1902–06 (FWN 352)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=885 (accessed on May 19, 2025).
