Schweiz, Kanton Wallis, Rhonegletscher (Switzerland, Canton of Valais, Rhône Glacier), c. 1859-1862

Not on View

albumen print

image: 29.2 × 44.3 cm (11 1/2 × 17 7/16 in.)
mount: 45.2 × 58.6 cm (17 13/16 × 23 1/16 in.)

2016.26.1

Bisson Frères (artist) French, active 1841 - 1864

by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: Schweiz, Kanton Wallis. Rhonegletscher.; by artist, lower right in red ink: Bisson freres

(sale, Christie’s London, 2001, PHT9087 lot-169); (Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco); NGA purchase, 2016.

Koch Gallery, Robert

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.