Alexandre Calame (Vevey 1810 – 1864 Menton) Boulders by a Lake, 1857-61 Oil on paper on canvas, 32.3 x 46.5 cmSigned lower left A. Calame f. This plein-air oil study is one of a group of studies and sketches after similar motifs executed by Calame in the years 1857-61. He was especially interested in…
Alexandre Calame (Vevey 1810 – 1864 Menton) La Tour, Lake Geneva, 1845 Oil on cardboard, 22,8 x 50,3 cmInscribed and dated lower right La Tour. Août 13. 1845. Bearing the Vente Calame seal on the verso; label of the Lecène collection, Paris; address label of Galerie Dr. Rehfous, Geneva Provenance:Calame estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot,…
Alexandre Calame(Vevey, Switzerland 1810 – 1864 Menton) Tree Stump and Boulders, Switzerland, c. 1850 Oil on paper, laid down on cardboard, 32.6 x 42.7 cm Provenance:Amélie Calame (1815-1907), Geneva, the artist’s widow, 1865;Arthur Calame, Geneva (1843-1919), the artist’s son, 1907;Marguerite Buscarlet-Calame, Geneva (on the verso the printed inventory label of Arthur Calame’s estate dated April…
Alexandre Calame(Vevey, Switzerland 1810 – 1864 Menton) Rocks in a Riverbed at Rosenlaui, Switzerland, c. 1862 Oil on canvas, laid down on cardboard, 41 x 55 cm Provenance:Amélie Calame (1815-1907), Geneva, the artist’s widow, 1865;Arthur Calame, Geneva (1843-1919), the artist’s son, 1907;Marguerite Buscarlet-Calame, Geneva, 1919;Louis Buscarlet, Geneva, 1924;Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, auction sale, May 20, 1999,…