L'Orido a Bellano sul Lago di Como (The Orrido di Bellano near Lake Como)

c. 1805

Peter Birmann

Artist, Swiss, 1758 - 1844

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2016.33.1

Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

2015

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

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64619374

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