Lot 18: BARTHÉLEMY MENN | Bridge in mountainous Roman landscape

Oil on canvas

56 x 46,5 cm

Oil on canvas

One framed work, inspected framed. The frame allows the inspection of the oval shaped painted area. Original canvas, not relined. Some craquelures are noticeable all over the surface, but stable. Under UV light, an old restoration of circa 4 cm is visible in the lower middle, plus some scattered traced all over the sky. In very good condition.
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Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Alpine views : Alexandre Calame and the Swiss landscape, 2006, no. 27
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut Storrs, Alpine Views : Alexandre Calame and the Swiss Landscape, 2007, no 27
Tromsø, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum and Bergen Billedgalleri,  Den ville natur. Sveitisk og norsk romantikk. Malerier fra Asbjø rn Lundes samling, New York, 2007-8, no. 21, repr. p. 92

Private collection, France
Sotheby's, Zurich, 2nd December 1998, lot 19
Estate Asbjorn Lunde (purchased at the above sale)