Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen beyond the Wall of the Jas de Bouffan
c. 1885/1888
Artist, French, 1839 - 1906
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 47.2 x 30.5 cm (18 9/16 x 12 in.)
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Accession
1985.64.82
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rewald 1983, no. 263
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris); Mme Paul Guillaume, Paris; (Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam); Franz Koenigs [1881-1941], Haarlem; Mrs. A. Boerlage-Koenigs, Amsterdam; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 March 1958, no. 140, repro); (Contemporary Arts Establishment, Zurich); (Fritz and Peter Nathan, Zurich); Paul Mellon [1907-1999]; gift 1985 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no. 231, repro.
1986
Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1986, unnumbered checklist.
2006
Cézanne in Provence, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006, no. 26, repro.
2012
Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2012 (not in catalogue).
2021
Cézanne Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021, plate 124.
Cézanne Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1936
Venturi, Lionello. Cezanne, son art, son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1936: no. 1547.
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966: repro. no. 231.
1983
Rewald, John. Paul Cezanne: The Watercolors. Boston: Little, Brown and Company (A New York Graphic Society Book), 1983.
1993
Kapos, Martha, ed. The Post-Impressionists: A Retrospective. New York, 1993: pl. 86, 267.
Watermarks
PL BAS
Wikidata ID
Q64618840