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Vue du Gross-Horn et du Breit-Horn avec le petit Lac d'Ober-Horn
Charles Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753–1820)
1785
Medium/Technique
Engraving, etching, aquatint, and roulette, printed in color from multiple plates
Dimensions
Sheet: 32.5 x 46.5 cm (12 13/16 x 18 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow Fund
Accession Number2008.1535
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
IFF (18th C) Descourtis 7
State
before letters
DescriptionProof before letters
InscriptionsIn image, on rock at lower left: Descou...
Lower margin in pen and brown ink: Vue du Gross-Horn et du Breit-Horn avec le petit Lac d'Ober-Horn
Lower right in graphite pencil: avant le lettre
Lower right in graphite pencil: gravé par Descourtis
Lower margin in pen and brown ink: Vue du Gross-Horn et du Breit-Horn avec le petit Lac d'Ober-Horn
Lower right in graphite pencil: avant le lettre
Lower right in graphite pencil: gravé par Descourtis
ProvenanceAntoine Cahen (Paris), about 2007; from whom purchased by Jan Johnson (Montreal); from whom purchased by MFA, December 17, 2008.