Artwork Details
25-1/2 x 32 in. (canvas) 35-5/16 x 41-1/2 x 3-11/16 in. (framed, Optium)
Accession NumberGift of Mrs. James W. Fesler in memory of Daniel W. and Elizabeth C. Marmon
CopyrightEuropean Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color PaletteProvenance
Provenance
Probably from the artist to (Ambroise Vollard, Paris, France).{1} To Henri Bernstein [1876-1953] by 1910;{2} (Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1911);{3} Auguste Pellerin [1852-1929].{4} Probably via (Ambroise Vollard, Paris) and (Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Germany) to Gottlieb Friedrich Reber [1880-1959] by 1918;{5} sold to (Marie Harriman, New York, New York) by 1936;{6} purchased by Caroline Marmon Fesler, Indianapolis, Indiana; given to the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1945. {7} {1} See John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, volume 1, 1996, no. 573 cites the Vollard stocknumber 3879[A]. {2} See Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Cézanne, 10-22 January 1910, no. 7, listing the owner as "H. Bernstein." {3} See auction catalogue, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 7 June 1911, no. 9 (illustration); {4} An annotated copy of the auction catalogue at the Frick Art Reference Library gives the purchaser as "Pellerin." {5} A label with the Vollard stocknumber 5155 appears on the painting's stretcher. On Reber's ownership, see Peter Kropmanns and Uwe Fleckner, "Von Kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlung," in Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter, eds., Die Moderne und ihre Sammler, Berlin 2001, p. 352. A photo of the interior of Reber's apartment, dated to 1918, shows this painting hanging on the wall. {6} Reber established connections with Harriman beginning in 1931 when she acquired Rousseau's Rendezvous in the Forest, NGA, from him. Based on the stocknumbers of several works that followed this path into the NGA's collection, IMA's painting was acquired by Harriman closer to 1936; information courtesy of Nancy Yeide, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. {7} IMA Temporary Receipt No. 4689.
Gallery Labels
Gallery Labels
- Cézanne loved the landscape of his home in southern France and devoted much of his career to painting it. This view depicts the ridge that sweeps down from the south side of Mont Sainte-Victoire, one of the artist’s favorite motifs.
- This canvas, a classic example of Cézanne’s mature style, shows his desire to suggest nature’s underlying structure. He rendered the landscape as a composition of geometric shapes. The rugged terrain is a series of horizontal bands of blue, green, and tan, punctuated by the vertical accents of the trees and the volume of the isolated farmhouse.
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Cézanne Site/Non-site
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
February 4, 2014 - May 18, 2014
Cézanne
Philadelphia Museum of Art
May 26, 1996 - September 1, 1996
Sainte-Victoire Cézanne 1990
Musée Granet
June 15, 1990 - June 15, 1990
Cézanne in Provence
Musée Granet
June 21, 1982 - June 24, 1982
Tribute to Caroline Marmon Fesler, Collector
John Herron Art Institute and Museum
November 15, 1961 - December 17, 1961
French Paintings of the XIX and XX Centuries
Fogg Art Museum
June 27, 1941 - August 18, 1941
The Art of the Third Republic, French Painting 1870-1940
Worcester Art Museum
February 22, 1941 - March 16, 1941
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition
Columbus Museum of Art
January 14, 1941 - February 18, 1941
Seven Centuries of Painting
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
December 29, 1939 - January 28, 1940
French Paintings of the XIX Century
Fogg Art Museum
November 15, 1938 - December 7, 1938
Cézanne-Gauguin
Toledo Museum of Art
November 1, 1936 - December 13, 1936
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition
The Cleveland Museum of Art
1936 - 1936
Art European d Aujourd hui
1927 - 1927
Exhibition of French Painting
Marie Harriman Gallery
Dates Unknown
Exposition Cézanne
Bernheim Jeune
Dates Unknown
Cézanne, Derain and Others
Marie Harriman Gallery
Dates Unknown
Internationale Kunstaustellung
Dates Unknown
Cézanne
Réunion des Musées Nationaux
Dates Unknown
Cézanne
Fogg Art Museum
Dates Unknown
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