An Ancient Pine Forest with a Mountain Stream

1847

Alexandre Calame

Artist, Swiss, 1810 - 1864

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and gouache over charcoal on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

  • Dimensions

    overall: 61.2 x 84.2 cm (24 1/8 x 33 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.126.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Anker 2000, no. 467

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(August Laube, Zurich); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2012

  • Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2012, 37, 158, no. 12 (color). (French title: De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke.)

Bibliography

1999

  • Laube, August. Drawings by Swiss Artists. Zurich, 1999: 8-9.

2000

  • Anker, Valentina. Alexandre Calame, dessins: Catalogue rasonné. Berne, 2000.

Inscriptions

in image, lower left on rock: A. Calame; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 37534

Wikidata ID

Q64534169

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