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 367
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves
1904–06
Alternate titles: Der Mont Sainte-Victoire; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire; Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves; Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves
Rewald (931): 1904–06; Venturi revised: 1902–6; Venturi (1529): 1904–6
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 28 5/16 in. (60 x 72 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
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. 62, pl. 128. 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. 90, ill.
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne, June 16–September 2, 1990, no. 41, figs. 39 and 230.
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision in Landscape, August 9–October 21, 1990, no. 66, ill.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Cézanne in Provence, January 29–May 7, 2006, no. 167, ill. Traveled to: Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 9–September 17, 2006.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh... Inspiration Japan, September 27, 2014–January 18, 2015, no. 8, ill., p. 180, as Der Mont Sainte-Victoire, lent by Kunstmuseum Basel. Traveled to: Kunsthaus, Zurich, February 20–May 10, 2015.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 185, ill.
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary, Cezanne to Malevich, Arcadia to Abstraction, October 28, 2021–February 13, 2022, no. 50, ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 124, ill. Traveled to: Tate Modern, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1529, 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. 90.
Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Katalog. , p. 9, ill.
Gordon, Donald E. "The Expressionist Cézanne." Artforum 16, no. 7 (March 1978), p. 35, ill.
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 148.
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. 235, fig. 91.
Wetzel, Christoph. Paul Cézanne: Leben u. Werk. Stuttgart/Zurich: Belser, 1984, p. 82/83, ill. in color.
Thomas, Denis. The Age of the Impressionists. Middlesex, U.K.: Holiday House, 1987, p. 165, ill.
Lévêque, Jean Jacques. La Vie et l'oeuvre de Paul Cézanne. Courbevoie: ACR, 1988, p. 211, ill. in color.
Plazy, Gilles. Cézanne ou la peinture absolue. Paris: Editions Liana Levi, 1988, p. 159, ill. in color.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 59, ill.
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 222, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Cézanne, tradition et modernité." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 92, fig. 39.
Coutagne, Denis. "Sainte-Victoire d'après Cézanne." In Sainte-Victoire: Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 224, fig. 200.
Brion-Guerry, Liliane. "La difficile recherche d'un nouvel espace." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. p. 72 (detail).
Cachin, Françoise, and Joseph Rishel. Cézanne. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995. Exhibition catalogue, p. 469, fig. 2.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 154-55, ill.
Coutagne, Denis. "Les paysages." Dossier de l'art (Dijon), no. 25 (September - October 1995), ill. pp. 38-39.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 166.
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. 931, 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. 58, fig. 26, as Le Mont Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves.
Coutagne, Denis. "The Major Works in the Lauves Studio." In Atelier Cézanne, 1902–2002: Le centenaire. Aix-en-Provence: Société Paul Cézanne, 2002, fig. 35, ill. in color.
Dittmann, Lorenz. Die Kunst Cézannes: Farbe, Rythmus, Symbolik. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, pl. 8.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: The Eye and the Mind, 2 vols. Marseille: Editions Crès, 2008, vol. 1, fig. 338; vol. 2, p. 223, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves.
Van Look, Hans-Günther. Sehrevolte der Scheinung: Cézanne am Mont Sainte-Victoire. Munich: Verlag Karl Alber GmbH Freiburg, 2008, pp. 13–16 of illustrations (pp. 14–16 details).
Sachs, Katherine. "Cézanne and Marden: The Almost Perfect Painting." In Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven: In association with Yale University Press, 2009. Exhibition catalogue, p. 497, fig. 18.5, as Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Les Lauves, dated 1902–06.
Coutagne, Denis. Cézanne abstraction faite. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2011, pp. 162-63, figs. 106, 121.
Coutagne, Denis. "Courbet/Cézanne: la vérité en peinture." In Cézanne and the past : tradition and creativity [international symposium, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 28 January 2013]. Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, 2017, fig. 6.
Ruppen, Fabienne. "On Margins and Versos: The Hidden Interrelationships Among Cézanne's Works on Paper." In Cézanne Metamorphoses. Munich and Karlsruhe: Prestel and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 8.
Armstrong, Carol. Cézanne's Gravity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, fig. 78.
Cézanne, Philippe. Paul Cezanne dépeint par ses contemporains. Lyon: Fage éditions, 2021, fig. 131.
Record last updated July 18, 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 vue des Lauves, 1904–06 (FWN 367)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=904 (accessed on July 15, 2025).
