Alpine Landscape
date: label: Date
content: June–September 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of the rolling, mountainous landscape in the alps of Bavaria, Austria, or Switzerland. A gently sloping, grassy hill fills the foreground as it ascends slightly to the right. In the middle distance, a purplish-gray hillside covered in conifer trees descends across the composition from center left to right. In the background, an immense, sharp mountain range is partially obscured by low-lying clouds, which are illuminated in a yellow-orange glow by the sun behind them. Loose brushstroke suggests a tumultuous sky.
place: label: made in
content: Bavaria, Austria, or Switzerland
label: place depicted
content: Bavaria, Austria, or Switzerland
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-505-c
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil paint, graphite on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: 23.4 × 29.9 cm (9 3/16 × 11 3/4 in.)