A traveller in a cabriolet fording a stream, Central Valley, Chile

Details

Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858)
A traveller in a cabriolet fording a stream, Central Valley, Chile
oil on canvas
13 x 16½in. (33.1 x 41.8cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's, 16 Feb. 1973, lot 174 (£1,890 to F. Sabin).
Professor Harold W. Livermore, Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham.

Literature

P. Diener, Rugendas, 1802-1858, Augsburg, 1997, Cátalogo Razonado, p. 271, CH-0-23 ('Viajero en cabriolet, por un camino on el valle central de Chile').
P. Diener and M. de Fátima Costa, Juan Mauricio Rugendas. Pintor y Dibujante (exhibition catalogue), Sao Paulo, 1998, p.31, no.37.

Exhibited

Santiago de Chile, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Juan Mauricio Rugendas, Pintor y Dibujante, 1998, no.37 ('Paisaje montañoso, cerca de un poblado, con un cabriolé').

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Lot Essay

'The picture shows a traveller on the road to Valparaíso with a view of the mountains on the west side of the Central Valley, the so-called littoranean mountains. As is suggetsed by the size and the technique, the picture and the 'View of el Membrillo, near Valparaíso', belong together and were probably painted at the same time.' (Pablo Diener, private communication, August 2007)

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