La Lutschinen sortant du Glacier inférieur du Grindelwald

1785

Charles-Melchior Descourtis after Caspar Wolf

Associated Names
Charles-Melchior Descourtis

Artist, French, 1753 - 1820

Caspar Wolf

Artist After, Swiss, 1735 - 1783

The image depicts a glacier surrounded by mountains. The horizon shows towering peaks blending with a cloudy sky. The painting features delicate brushstrokes capturing details of the ice and rocks. The color palette includes cool blues and greens for the ice, contrasting with earthy browns and tans for the mountains. Large mounds of glacier ice are seen on rocky terrain. In the distance, jagged peaks and a cluster of trees appear. A small group of figures in the midsection provides scale to the natural elements.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wash manner printed in four colors on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in Memory of Neil Phillips

  • Dimensions

    plate: 31.9 x 43.6 cm (12 9/16 x 17 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 33.9 x 49 cm (13 3/8 x 19 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.18.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1700), no. 7

  • Series Title

    Vues Remarquables des Montagnes de la Suisse dessinés et colorées d'apres Nature, avec leur Descriptions

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(August Laube, Zurich); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 73.

Bibliography

1930

  • Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Wolf pinxit; lower right in plate: Descourtis sculp./ lower center in plate: LA LUTSCHINEN SORTANT DU GLACIER INFÉRIEUR DU GRINDELWALD / Canton de Berne, Province d'Interlaken / Dediée a son Excellence Monsieur de Kalitcheff, / Gentilhomme de la Chambre et Envoyé extraordinaire et Mre. Plenipotentiaire de sa Mre. L'Impératrice de toutes les Russies / auprès de LL. H. Puisances dles EE. G. des Provinces-unies. / Par son très humble et trees obeisant Serviteur R. Hentzi.

Wikidata ID

Q76337363

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