Claude-Louis Châtelet (1753-1794)

Views of the Reinbach Falls, Switzerland

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Claude-Louis Châtelet (1753-1794)
Views of the Reinbach Falls, Switzerland
signed and inscribed 'Dessiné d'apres nature par Chatelet. Vue des Cascades du Reinback qui se precipite dans la vallée de Meringen ou Oberhardt en Suisse' (1) and signed, inscribed and dated 'cascades du Reinback dessiné d'apres nature par Chatelet en Suisse en 1780/....' (2)
black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, grey wash heightened with white on blue paper
20¼ x 14.3/8 in. (511 x 365 mm.) and 20 x 14 in. (508 x 357 mm.) (2)

Lot Essay

A similar sheet, of the Waterfalls at Schaffhausen, was sold at Christie's Monaco, 20 June 1994, lot 107. These drawings may be projects for prints after designs by Chatelet for the book Tableaux de la Suisse published by Laborde & Zurlauben in 1781-6.
The waterfall at Reinbach was the site of Sherlock Holmes' final struggle with Professor Moriarty in which the eminent detective mysteriously disappeared.

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