Gabriel Loppé ( 1825 - 1913 )

Winter in the Meiringen Valley, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland


Winter in the Meiringen Valley, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland


oil on canvas, 30 x 40cm.
signed and dated 1866

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Loppé first encountered the haute-montagne when on a summer painting school in Meiringen, twenty years before he painted this wintry scene of a hunter and his dog by the Aare River. As the portal to the high Alps of the Bernese Oberland, the village remained a special place for Loppé, who returned there most years as if on a pilgrimage.

Gabriel Loppé