Alexandre Calame (1810-1864)

A torrent running through an alpine landscape with snow covered mountains in the distance

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Alexandre Calame (1810-1864)
A torrent running through an alpine landscape with snow covered mountains in the distance
signed and dated lower centre A Calame f 1850, and signed again and dated again on a label on the stretcher
oil on canvas
101 x 141 cm

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Frederik Muller & Cie. Amsterdam, 25 November 1903, lot 17, ill.
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, inv.no. WRM 1244, 1904-1927/28.
Galerie D. Heinemann, Munich, 1928.

Literature

V. Anker, Alexandre Calame. Vie et Oeuvre, Fribourg 1987, p. 392, no. 419, ill.

Sale room notice

Please note that the exact provenance after 1903 should read:
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, inv.no. WRM122, 1904-1926, from whom acquired by Galerie D. Heinemann, Munich, on 5 May 1926 in exchange for another painting.

Lot Essay

For a preliminary study of the same subject from the same year, see V. Anker, op.cit., p.392, no. 420. The author has divided the artist's oeuvre in a series of stylistic and thematical groups. She classifies the present lot under the '10th style, which is the group of fir trees and torrents (1848-1863).

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