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 351
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves
1902–04
Alternate titles: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves; Mont Sainte-Victoire; Montagne Sainte-Victoire seen from Les Lauves; Sainte-Victoire
Rewald (912): 1902–04; Venturi revised: 1902–6; Venturi (798): 1904–6; Machotka et al: 1902–06
Oil on canvas
27 1/2 x 35 3/16 in. (69.8 x 89.5 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Rosenberg, New York, 21 Masterpieces by 7 Great Masters, November 15–December 18, 1948, no. 3, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.
Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Philadelphia, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Masterpieces of Painting, November 4, 1950–February 11, 1951, no. 89, ill., as Sainte-Victoire, lent by Philadelphia Museum.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 109, ill. lent by Philadelphia. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Orangerie, Paris, De David à Toulouse-Lautrec: Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections américaines, April 20–July 5, 1955, no. 6, pl. 67, lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 52, ill.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 66, ill. lent by Philadelphia.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, November 5–December 5, 1959, no. 54, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Olympia's Progeny: French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings (1865-1905), October 28–November 27, 1965, no. 81, ill., as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1904-06, lent by The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 33. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
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. 58, pl. 122. 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. 82, ill.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 20, ill. lent by Philadelphia Museum.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 203, ill. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 159, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26–May 17, 2009, pl. 182, p. 476, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. "Sur les dernières années de Cézanne." Minotaure, no. 9 (1936), fig. 8.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 798, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire.
Rewald, John. Cézanne et Zola. Paris: Editions A. Sedrowski, 1936, fig. 77, with photograph of motif.
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.
Goldwater, Robert J. "Cézanne in America: The Master's Paintings in American Collections." Art News Annual 36, no. 26 (March 26, 1938), p. 151, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 88.
Barnes, Albert C., and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Cézanne. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939, no. 189, p. 281, ill.
Rewald, John. Cézanne, sa vie, son œuvre, son amitié pour Zola. Paris: Albin Michel, 1939, fig. 86, with photograph of motif.
Mackenzie, Helen Frances. Understanding Picasso: A Study of His Styles and Development. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1940, pl. 7.
Loran, Erle. Cézanne's Composition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943, pp. 104–05, pl. XXVI (with photograph of the motif).
Rewald, John. "As Cézanne Recreated Nature." Art News 43, no. 1 (February 15, 1944), p. 10, ill. (with photograph of motif).
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1946, p. 427, ill.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948, fig. 105 (with photograph of motif).
Loran, Erle. "Cézanne in 1952." Quarterly (Art Institute of Chicago) 46, no. 1 (February 1, 1952), fig. 1, p. 3.
Sargent, Winthrop. "Cézanne: The Great Paintings of a Frustrated Recluse Changed the Whole Course of Modern Art." Life 32, no. 8 (February 25, 1952), p. 84, ill.
Biederman, Charles. The New Cézanne. Winona, MN: Leicht Press, 1958, pls. 3 (detail), 9.
Sérullaz, Maurice. Les Peintres Impressionnistes. Paris: Pierre Tisné, 1959, p. 123, ill., as Sainte-Victoire, dated 1904.
Haftmann, Werner. Painting in the Twentieth Century. 2. London: Lund Humphries, c. 1960, ill. p. 41, as Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1904/06.
Itten, Johannes. The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color. New York: Reinhold, 1961, p. 85, pl. 15.
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961, p. 579, ill.
Hamilton, George Heard. Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880–1940. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967, pl. 9B.
Martini, Alberto, and Renata Negri. Cézanne e il post-impressionismo. Milan: Fabbri, 1967, pl. VIII.
Raphael, Max. "The Work of Art and the Model in Nature: Cézanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire." In The Demands of Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968, pp. 9, 16–17, 36–37 (quoted above; translated by N. Guterman).
Miura, Shumon, Mitsuhiko Kuroe, and Shūji Takashina. Cézanne. Tokyo: Chūō Kōronsha, 1972, pl. 54.
Henning, Edward B. "Picasso: Harlequin with Violins (Si Tu Veux)." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 8 (January 1976), p. 8, fig. 13.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 98, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Embiricos, Georges A. "Cézanne et la répétition." Connaissance des Arts, no. 315 (May 1978), p. 71, ill.
Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1980, p. 19, pl. 2.
Ponente, Nello, ed. Cézanne e le avanguardie. Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1981, Lux: pl. 33.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 149.
Butler, Marigene. "An Investigation of the Materials and Technique Used by Paul Cézanne." American Institute for Conservation. 1984, ill.
Hamilton, George Heard. "The Dying of the Light: The Late Work of Degas, Monet, and Cézanne." In Aspects of Monet, edited by John Rewald and Frances Weitzenhoffer. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984, p. 236, fig. 92.
Read, Herbert. A Concise History of Modern Painting. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1985, p. 15, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 210, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 155, ill. in color.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 221, ill.
Hoog, Michel. "L'Oeuvre." In Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 203, fig. 183.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 110, fig. 57.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 136, fig. 1.
Kostenevich, Albert. Hidden Treasures Revealed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 206, fig. 2.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 165.
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. 912, ill. vol. 2, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves .
Benesch, Evelyn. "From the Incomplete to the Unfinished: Realisation in the Work of Paul Cézanne." In Cézanne: Finished, Unfinished. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Exhibition catalogue, p. 59, fig. 27, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves .
Smith, Paul. "Cézanne's maternal landscape and its gender." In Gendering landscape art, Edited by Steven Adams and Anna Gruetzner Robins. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001, fig. 28.
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. 34, fig. 2.
Tosini, Aurora Scotti. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)." In Cézanne, Renoir. Milan: Skira, 2005. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53, ill.
Riley, Bridget. "Cézanne in Provence." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006), pp. 628-29, fig. 56, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire seen from Les Lauves.
Simms, Matthew. Cézanne's watercolors: between drawing and painting. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, p. 163, fig. 115.
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. 476, pl. 182, as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Chevrier, Jean-François. "Jeff Wall: Within the View(ing), or The Spirit of Place." In Cézanne and Beyond. New Haven: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 511, ill., p. 476, pl. 182, as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 77.
Dombrowski, André, Nancy Ireson, and Sylvie Patry, eds. Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Barnes Foundation, 2021, p. 145, fig. 7, as Montagne Sainte-Victoire seen from Les Lauves.
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, 1902–04 (FWN 351)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=886 (accessed on March 28, 2025).
