Vue d'un pont sur l'Aar, Canton de Berne (View of a Bridge on the Aar, Berne)

1785

Charles-Melchior Descourtis

Associated Names
Charles-Melchior Descourtis

Artist, French, 1753 - 1820

Friedrich Rosenberg

Artist After, German, 1758 - 1833

The image shows a view from a high vantage point looking over a river. Distant mountains covered in haze are visible against a cloudy sky on the horizon. A bridge arches over the river, featuring travelers and animals crossing it. The landscape includes cliffs and turbulent water, rendered with precise brushstrokes. The color palette is muted with greens, browns, and blues under a pastel sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and wash manner, printed in color on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips

  • Dimensions

    plate: 44.5 × 31.6 cm (17 1/2 × 12 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 48.1 × 33 cm (18 15/16 × 13 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.26.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1700): undesc.

  • Series Title

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

  • IFF (1700) undesc.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Rosenberg pinxit; lower right in plate: Descourtis sculp.; lower center in plate: BUE D'UN PONT SUR L'AAR / Canton de Berne / Dediée à Madame Marie Frederique / Comtesse de Heiden, née Baronne de Reede / Par son très humble et très Obeissant Serviteur R. Hentzi; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 34; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 33/042 / 180574

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