Mont Sainte-Victoire by Cezanne in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 2009

Mont Sainte-Victoire

Paul Cézanne, French, 1839 - 1906

Geography: Made in France, Europe

Date: 1902-4

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 36 3/16 inches (73 x 91.9 cm)

Curatorial Department: European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection

Object Location: Gallery 164, European Art 1850-1900, first floor (Annenberg Galleries; Women´s Committee Gallery)

Accession Number: E1936-1-1

Credit Line: The George W. Elkins Collection, 1936

Provenance: Possibly estate of Paul Cezanne, 1906; with Ambroise Vollard, Paris, and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, c. 1907-1936 [1]; with Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York, by 1936 [2]; sold to the City of Philadelphia for the George W. Elkins Collection, July 7, 1936 [3]. 1. The preceding information per John Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1996, no. 912. Rewald, Cézanne et Zola, Paris, 1936, fig. 77, lists the painting as coll. Vollard. According to Paul Rosenberg, Vollard purchased the painting directly from Cézanne (letter to Fiske Kimball, July 7, 1936, in curatorial file). 2. Published by Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art -- son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, no. 798, as coll. Paul Rosenberg, from Vollard. 3. Dated receipt from Rosenberg in registrar file.

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