Alexandre Calame ( 1810 - 1864 )

Trunk of a Beech Tree


Trunk of a Beech Tree


oil on card
18 x 13 ¼ in. (45.5 x 33.5 cm.)
c.1850-5

From Fjord to Forest, cat ref: 6
 

Provenance:
Zürich, Sotheby’s, 27 May 2008, lot 3
Asbjørn Lunde (1927-2017), New York.

Exhibition:     
Alpine Views: Alexandre Calame and the Swiss Landscape, Williamstown, Clark Art Institute, 2006, no. 86, not reproduced;
Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection London, National Gallery, 2011, no. 34, repr. p. 64.

Literature:
V.Anker, Alexandre Calame: Vie et oeuvre- Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, Fribourg, 1987, no. 481, repr. p.402.

Alexandre Calame