1977.173: Mont Sainte-Victoire (recto and verso)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1977.173

People

Paul Cézanne, French (Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906 Aix-en-Provence)

Title

Mont Sainte-Victoire (recto and verso)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1885-1887

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295701

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on buff paper; verso: graphite

Dimensions

30.9 x 46.7 cm (12 3/16 x 18 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 4731 / 1616 / 6347
• inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 18

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Eugène Blot (by 1914) (sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, June 2, 1933, no. 3, pl. 1). [Alfred Daber, Paris (by 1936)]. [Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam]. Erich Maria Remarque, Ascona and New York (by 1952). [Marianne/Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (after 1958)]. [E. V. Thaw & Co., New York]; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., January 12, 1968; gift to Fogg, 1977

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. in honor of Agnes Mongan

Accession Year

1977

Object Number

1977.173

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Fransk Malerkunst fra det 19nde Aarhundrede (Exposition d'art français du XIXe siècle), exh. cat., Statens Museum for Kunst (Copenhagen, 1914), cat. no. 233
• Waldemar George, Cézanne: Aquarelles, Editions des Quatre Chemins (Paris, 1926), no. 7, pl. 3
• Catalogue des tableaux modernes: aquarelles, pastels, dessins...provenant de la collection Eugène Blot, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, June 2, 1933), no. 3, pl. 1
• Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son oeuvre, P. Rosenberg (Paris, 1936), no.1021, pl. 301
• Paul Cézanne Water Colours, exh. cat., Paul Cassirer Ltd (London, 1939), no. 37
• Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1952), p. 85, no. 101, repr.
• Fritz Novotny, Paul Cézanne 1839-1906, exh. cat., Gemeentemuseum (The Hague, 1956), no. 71
• Paul Cézanne 1839-1906, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich, 1956), cat. no. 111
• Paul Cézanne 1839-1906, exh. cat., Haus der Kunst München (Munich, 1956), cat. no. 86
• Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), no. 153, pl. 170
• Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), no. 153, pl. 157
• Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 153, p. 104, pl. 157, repr.
• Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), pp. 369-373, fig. 154, ill. (b/w)
• Adrien Chappuis, The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York Graphic Society Ltd. (Greenwich, CT, 1973), verso: cat. no. 895, repr.
• Violette de Mazia, "Expression", The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department (Fall 1974), V, no. 2, pp. 19-21, pl. 32 (verso), pl. 34 (recto)
• Götz Adriani, Cézanne Watercolors, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1983), no. 32, repr.
• John Rewald, Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1983), cat. no. 28, repr.; verso repr. p. 152
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 298, p. 255, repr.
• Antoine Terrasse, Les aquarelles de Cézanne, Flammarion (Paris, 1995), p. 62, repr. p. 63
• Françoise Cachin, Cézanne, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1996), cat. no. 96, repr.
• Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 609
• Thomas F. Schneider and Inge Jaehner, ed., Remarques Impressionisten: Kunstsammeln und Kunsthandel im Exil, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Göttigen and Bristol, Connecticut, 2013), cat. 7; repr. p. 185, p. 57
• Christopher Lloyd, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors, J. Paul Getty Museum and Thames & Hudson (Los Angeles, 2015), p. 212; repr. as fig.156 on p. 229

Exhibition History

• Fransk Malerkunst fra det 19nde Aarhundrede (Exposition d'art français du XIXe siècle, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen K, 05/15/1914 - 06/30/1914
• Paul Cézanne Water Colours, Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, 07/01/1939 - 07/31/1939
• Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/07/1952 - 03/16/1952; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 04/11/1952 - 05/18/1952
• Paul Cézanne 1839-1906, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, 06/01/1956 - 07/31/1956; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 08/22/1956 - 10/07/1956; Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 10/12/1956 - 11/18/1956
• French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
• Modern Painting Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1971 - 01/03/1972; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 02/02/1972 - 03/19/1972
• Paul Cézanne: Aquarelle, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, 01/16/1982 - 03/21/1982
• Cézanne, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 05/30/1996 - 09/01/1996

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