Vue de Schadau sur le Lac de Thun (View of Scadau, from the Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Charles Melchior Descourtis

Title

Vue de Schadau sur le Lac de Thun (View of Scadau, from the Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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Artist's working dates 1773–1820

Medium

Aquatint on cream laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered, lower left: "Clement del."; lower right: "Decourtis Sculp."; below image: "Vue de Schadau sur le lac de Thun/ Dediee a S.A.S. mgr...des provinces unies/ Par son tres...serviteur R.bentzi gowr. des pages/ Se vendi a Paris chez Mr Graff rue des 2. Portes St.Sauveur et chez Mr Descourtis Graveur rue des Grands Degres no.26."

Dimensions

Image: 24 × 39 cm (9 1/2 × 15 3/8 in.); Sheet: 33 × 48 cm (13 × 18 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edward C. Porter

Reference Number

1964.373

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