Lake of Brienz
late 19th century
Artist, American, 1811 - 1893
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite with gouache on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
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Dimensions
sheet: 24.77 × 36.83 cm (9 3/4 × 14 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.585
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 11, no. 78.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: 1 Pines or firs / 2 inclining to greenish / 3 summit of mountains warm purple / greenish at base with bluish shadows / water greenish much lighter than the / slopes reflected with only slight / aproximation [sic] to the hue, except warm / grays or reddish tones / 4 warm gray 5 riddish brown 6 quite red / 7 brownish gray or purplish 8 gray / 9 clearing delicate green / 10 land slips or water [not deciphered]; lower right in graphite: Lake Brienz August [not deciphered]
Wikidata ID
Q64584498