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Watercolour, Nicholas CHEVALIER, Swiss scene, 1886

  • Soft hued rural landscape with two figures, a rustic house, rocks, timber and trees in the foreground. The scene looks out over water with large mountains on either side of the water and land wraps around the water in the background

    Swiss scene

Artists statement

Born: St Petersurg, Russia 1828; Arrived: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1854; Lived and worked: Switzerland 1845-1848, Germany 1851-1854, Australia 1854-1865, New Zealand 1865-1866, England 1870-1902; Died: London, Middlesex, England 1902

Historical information

Romanticism

Physical description

View from rustic house with two figures overlooking lake surrounded by mountains and trees. Grey brushed stained timber.

Inscriptions & markings

Recto: Signed and dated "N.Chevalier. / 1886" in brown watercolour in l.l.c of composition; Not titled

Mounting & framing

Grey brushed stained timber frame with gold brushed decorative gesso internal window edge and off white window mount

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