Mounts Göll and Brett near Berchtesgarden, Bavaria (Germany)
date: label: Date
content: June 28, 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 a Swiss chalet situated at the base of the mountains known as Hoher Göll and Hohes Brett near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, present-day Germany. In the foreground, the large chalet has a second floor balcony and is viewed directly with another building--possibly a barn--in front of it. Behind the chalet, the wooded terrain quickly ascends to a rounded, pyramidal peak in the middle distance at left. In the background,the craggy, snow-strewn peaks of the Hoher Göll and the Hohes Brett are visible at left and right, respectively.
place: label: made in
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
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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: 1917-4-350-b
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29.9 × 43.8 cm (11 3/4 × 17 1/4 in.)