Object Details
Artist
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Landscape study showing a view of a glacier beneath a rocky, serrated peak, likely in the Bavarian or Bernese Alps. Grassy, rolling hillsides stretch across the foreground and lead to a steep, rocky mountainside in the middle distance at left. At center, the blue and white ridges of a glacier are visible below the sharp, jagged peaks of a nearby mountain. Above, the cloudless sky is rendered in a shade of rich, royal blue.
Verso: Fern branches and leaves blotted and silhouetted in green.
Credit Line
Gift of Louis P. Church
Date
June - September, 1868
Accession Number
1917-4-670-b
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
landscapes
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Oil and graphite on tan paperboard; verso: oil or green ink
Dimensions
21.8 × 32.6 cm (8 9/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
made in
Germany or Switzerland
Germany or Switzerland
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Data Source
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Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1917-4-670-b