Mount Sainte-Victoire (c. 1904): Art, History and Details

Mount Sainte-Victoire (c. 1904) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

During the last 20 years of his life, Cezanne repeatedly painted Mount Sainte-Victoire near his home in Aix-en-Provence in southern France. Cezanne painted this view from life at one of his favorite sites, a small road that led from Aix eastward toward Mount Sainte-Victoire. He set up his easel at the edge of the road where he could see two umbrella pines and the mountain towering over the scene. A branch of one of the pines extends from the left of the canvas across the sky, echoing the slope of the mountain, linking the near and the far.

Object facts

• Title: Mount Sainte-Victoire
• Date: c. 1904
• Creator attribution: Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)
• Culture: France, late 19th-early 20th Century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Framed: 87.5 x 106.5 x 7 cm (34 7/16 x 41 15/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 72.2 x 92.4 cm (28 7/16 x 36 3/8 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1958.21

A detail from the museum

Cezanne created 36 paintings and 45 watercolors of Mount Sainte-Victoire. He was preoccupied with this subject and painted this mountain repeatedly until his death.

Collection credit

Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.

Further reading listed by the museum

• Wedderkop, Hans von. Paul Cézanne. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1922.
• Wedderkop, Hans von. "Paul Cezanne." Der Cicerone 14, pt. 2 (1922): 681-692.
• Rivière, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: H. Floury, 1923.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.