Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape study showing a view of the sun cresting the top of a mountain ridge in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. In the middle distance and loosely rendered, a rocky and rugged alpine ridge creates a jagged horizon that stretches across the composition. Snow or ice blankets the mountains at left. Above, the sun peaks over the top of the ridge, sending beams of light across the landscape and illuminated the tallest peaks at right.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- August 1868
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-361-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on tan paperboard
- Dimensions
- 29.7 × 46.7 cm (11 11/16 × 18 3/8 in.)
- place depicted
- Switzerland
- made in
- Switzerland
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-361-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a7b0d7bd-f09e-4a02-83c6-f3d9377bc151
