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 362
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et Château Noir
1904–06
Alternate titles: Château Noir (Montagne Sainte-Victoire); La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et le Château Noir; Le Château du diable; Le Château-Noir et la Sainte-Victoire; Mont Sainte-Victoire et Château Noir
Rewald (939): 1904–06; Venturi revised: 1902–6; Venturi (765): 1898–1900
Oil on canvas
25 13/16 x 31 7/8 in. (65.6 x 81 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
National Museum, Tokyo, Seiyo Bijutsu Meisaku, 1947.
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan, Cézanne and Renoir, November 18–30, 1951, no. 9.
Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, La Peinture française de Corot à Braque dans la Collection Ishibashi de Tokyo, 1962, no. 9, ill.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Mutual Influences between Japanese and Western Arts, September 7–October 27, 1967.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 59. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Cubism, October 2–November 14, 1976, no. 14. Traveled to: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, November 23–December 19, 1976.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 176, ill. shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan, Cézanne, October 4–November 30, 1997, no. 30, ill.
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, Cézanne and Japan, September 11–December 19, 1999, no. 36, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire et Château Noir, lent by Bridgestone Museum. Traveled to: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, January 5–March 12, 2000.
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Tokyo/Paris. Chefs-d'oeuvres du Bridgestone Museum of Art, collection Ishibashi Foundation (Masterpieces from Bridgestone Museum of Art, Collection Ishibashi Foundation), April 5–August 21, 2017, no. 44, ill.
Published References
"Le courrier de la presse: Cézanne." Le Bulletin de la vie artistique 2, no. 2 (January 15, 1921), ill. p. 52, as Le Château du diable.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1921, p. 64, pl. p. 62, as Le Château du diable.
Gasquet, Joachim. Cézanne. Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926, p. 106, pl. [17] hors texte, as Le Château du diable.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 89, ill.
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 765, ill. vol. II, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et le Château Noir.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 3.
Bertram, Anthony. "Modern European Painting: Lecture II." Royal Society of Arts Journal 88, no. 4549 (Jan. 26, 1940), p. 247, ill.
Rivière, Georges. Cézanne: Le Peintre solitaire. Paris: Librairie Floury, 1942, p. 93, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. "Cézanne als Zeichner." Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 14 (1950), p. 232.
Dorival, Bernard. "Un musée japonais d'art français." Connaissance des Arts, no. 81 (November 1958), p. 60, ill.
Novotny, Fritz. Über das "Elementare" in der Kunstgeschichte und andere Aufsätze. Vienna: Verlag Brüder Rosenbaum, 1968, p. 84.
Sutton, Denys. "The Paradoxes of Cézanne." Apollo (London) 100, no. 150 (August 1974), fig. 19 p. 107.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Final Decade." Horizon (October 1977), p. 86, ill. (with photograph of motif) and pl. 58.
Rewald, John. "Cézanne's Last Motifs at Aix." In Cézanne: The Late Work. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977. Exhibition catalogue, p. 86, ill. (with photograph of the motif).
Crespelle, Jean-Paul. "Cézanne's Magic Mountain." Réalités (November–December 1979), p. 56, ill.
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Collection. Tokyo, 1985, cat. no. P-36, no. 30, ill., as Mont Sainte-Victoire et Château Noir.
Rewald, John. Cézanne: A Biography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, p. 242, ill. (with photograph of motif).
Düchting, Hajo. Paul Cézanne: Natur wird Kunst. Cologne: Benedict Taschen Verlag, 1989, p. 214, ill.
Hoog, Michel. "L'Oeuvre." In Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990, p. 196, fig. 175, as Le Château-Noir et la Sainte-Victoire.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Sainte-Victoire Cézanne. Aix-en-Provence: Musée Granet, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, fig. 175.
Lartigue, Charles de. Les paysages de Paul Cézanne. Lyon: Les Créations du Pélican, 1995, p. 137, ill.
Coutagne, Denis, et al. Les Sites Cézanniens du Pays d'Aix: Hommage à John Rewald. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996, p. 134.
Machotka, Pavel. Cézanne: Landscape into Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, p. 147, fig. 142, with photograph of the motif, fig. 141, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et le Château Noir.
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. 939, ill. vol. 2, as Mont Sainte-Victoire et Château Noir.
Conisbee, Philip. "Le Tholonet, Bibémus, and the Château Noir." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 198, fig. 11, as Mont Sainte-Victoire et Château Noir.
Masterworks from Bridgestone Museum of Art. Tokyo: Bridgestone Museum of Art, 2009, p. 36, ill., no. 25.
France-Lanord, Hadrien. La couleur et la parole: les chemins de Paul Cézanne et de Martin Heidegger. Paris: Gallimard, 2018, ill. p. 202, as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire et Château Noir.
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Floriane Dauberville. Paul Cezanne chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Editions G-P.F. Dauberville & Archives Bernheim-Jeune, 2020, no. 108, ill., as Château Noir (Montagne Sainte-Victoire).
Sidlina, Natalia. "Cezanne's Slow Homecoming." In Cezanne. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2022, p. 63, fig. 2 (with photograph of the motif, fig. 3).
Asano, Haruo. "Un chef-d'oeuvre de Paul Cezanne au Japon." 2025, fig. 1 (with Rewald photo of the motif, fig. 10) and 14.
Record last updated January 24, 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 et Château Noir, 1904–06 (FWN 362)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=912 (accessed on April 24, 2025).
