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Mount Fiji, Japan
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Fritz Siegfried Georg Melbye (1826-1896)
Mount Fiji, Japan
signed, indistinctly inscribed and dated 'a mon ami Beattie...FG Melbye...'oil on board, unframed
oil on board, unframed
10 x 18.3/8in. (26 x 46.7cm.)
For a larger version of the same composition by Melbye, see Paintings of the China Coast..., Martyn Gregory, 1990, cat. 56, no. 37. After working with Pissarro in St. Thomas and Venezuela and with Frederic Church in North America, Melbye headed to the Far East in the late 1860s. He appears to have spent the remainder of his career in Japan and China.
Mount Fiji, Japan
signed, indistinctly inscribed and dated 'a mon ami Beattie...FG Melbye...'oil on board, unframed
oil on board, unframed
10 x 18.3/8in. (26 x 46.7cm.)
For a larger version of the same composition by Melbye, see Paintings of the China Coast..., Martyn Gregory, 1990, cat. 56, no. 37. After working with Pissarro in St. Thomas and Venezuela and with Frederic Church in North America, Melbye headed to the Far East in the late 1860s. He appears to have spent the remainder of his career in Japan and China.