A View of the Lake of Geneva, with people near a vineyard in the foreground looking at sailing-boats and a castle beyond

Henri Knip, youngest member of the family of artists, probably travelled to Italy and Switzerland around 1833, along with his father, Mattheus Derk Knip. The impact of the journey was such, that Swiss landscapes make up for about half of Henri's oeuvre. It is likely that most bodycolours with Swiss subjects originated before 1850, F. Kuyvenhoven, R. Peeters, De familie Knip. Drie generaties kunstenaars uit Noord-Brabant, exhib. catalogue, Zwolle, 1988, p. 108.
A comparable view of a lake is in the Unicorno Collection, C. Dumas, R.-J. te Rijdt, Kleur en Raffinement, exhib. catalogue, Zwolle Amsterdam Dordrecht, 1994, p. 139, no. 68.