Chute de la Tritt dans la vallée de Muhlethal

1776

Charles-Melchior Descourtis after Caspar Wolf

Associated Names
Charles-Melchior Descourtis

Artist, French, 1753 - 1820

Caspar Wolf

Artist After, Swiss, 1735 - 1783

The image shows a bridge crossing a waterfall with workers on it. There is no horizon shown. The focus is on the waterfall and the bridge. The brushstrokes are smooth, depicting the water and rocks. Earth tones dominate, with splashes of blue and white in the water and sky, and a rainbow in the mist. A figure in a cloak sits on the rocks in the foreground.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and wash manner printed in color on laid paper [proof]

  • Credit Line

    Phillips Family Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 44.2 x 32.2 cm (17 3/8 x 12 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 48.1 x 34.1 cm (18 15/16 x 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.96.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Antoine Cahen, Paris); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, 2012 - 2013, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

2006

  • Antoine Cahen, Estampes et dessins, Catalogue V, May 2006: no. 13.

Inscriptions

lower center in brown ink: Chute de la Tritt dans la vallé de Muhlethal

Wikidata ID

Q76337368

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