Vue du Gross-Horn et du Breit-Horn avec le petit Lac d'Ober-Horn

Charles Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753–1820)

Jean-Francois Janinet (French, 1752–1814)

1785

Medium/TechniqueEngraving, etching, aquatint, and roulette, printed in color from multiple plates

DimensionsSheet: 32.5 x 46.5 cm (12 13/16 x 18 5/16 in.)

Credit LineArthur and Charlotte Vershbow Fund

Accession number2008.1535

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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

ProvenanceAntoine Cahen (Paris), about 2007; from whom purchased by Jan Johnson (Montreal); from whom purchased by MFA, December 17, 2008.