L'Orido a Bellano sul Lago di Como (The Orrido di Bellano near Lake Como), c. 1805

Not on View

Medium

pen and black and brown ink with brown wash on wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 50.2 × 69 cm (19 3/4 × 27 3/16 in.)
mount: 51.7 × 70.2 cm (20 3/8 × 27 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2016.33.1

Artists / Makers

Peter Birmann (artist) Swiss, 1758 - 1844

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in pen and ink: Il Orrido a Bellano / sul Lago di Como P. Birman fecit.

Provenance

Estate of the artist; Samuel Birmann and Juliana Birmann-Visher, Basel. Öffentliche Kunstsammlungen, Basel, by 1859 (their deaccession stamp, no. 54, between 1912 and 1919. Private collection, Switzerland. (sale, Grisebach, Berlin, 25 November 2015, no. 104); (via C. G. Boerner LLC, New York); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Birmann, Samuel
Boerner LLC, C.G.

Exhibition History

2015: Grisebach, Berlin, "Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts," 25 November, no. 104.