Lot 20
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FRANÇOIS DIDAY | The Wetterhorn with upper and lower Grindelwald glacier

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 CHF
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Description

  • François Diday
  • The Wetterhorn with upper and lower Grindelwald glacier
  • Signed lower right
  • Oil on panel
  • 44,5 x 58,5 cm

Provenance

Christie's, Zurich, 14th April 1997, lot 23
Estate Asbjorn Lunde (purchased at the above sale)

Exhibited

Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Alpine views : Alexandre Calame and the Swiss landscape, 2006, no. 25
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut Storrs, Alpine views : Alexandre Calame and the Swiss landscape, no. 25
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum and Bergen Billedgalleri, Den ville natur. Sveitisk og norsk romantikk. Malerier fra Asbjørn Lundes samling, New York, 2007-8, no. 5, repr. p. 73
London, National Gallery, Forests, Rocks, and Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscape Paintings from the Lunde Collection, 2011, no. 5
Newark Museum, The Rockies and the Alps, Bierstadt, Calame and the romance of the mountains, 2018, no. 29 

Literature

A. Schreiber-Favre, François Diday 1802-1877, Fondateur de l'école suisse de paysage, contribution à l'histoire de l'art du 19e siècle, Geneva, 1942, p. 80 no. 192

Condition

One framed work inspected framed. some very thin craquelures are visible across the centre of the left edge and mostly overall the lower part of the work. Under UV light, a group of minor retouching is visible the in the upper left corner, plus in a circular area of circa 2 cm radius near the left slope of the mountain. In very good condition.
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