Fine Mountain Paintings
Mont Blanc
Matterhorn - Cervin
Fine old Mountain Paintings for sale - the Alps, Himalaya, British Mountains, Dolomites, Tirol, Berner Oberland, Valais, Mont Blanc, Matterhorn and other Mountain Ranges
original Paintings of Mountains, Dipinti di alpi, Tableaux des Alpes Montagnes, Mountain Paintings
Dolomites and Tyrol
British Mountains
The Himalaya
Bernese Oberland
Suisse
Mount Cook
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Artists have been painting mountains for centuries - Leonard de Vinci made sketches of high mountains c.1500. Long before that mountains were represented in the background of biblical scenes. Itinera per Helvetiae Alpinas regiones of 1723 by Johann Jacob Scheuzer is the grandest early book in which illustrations of mountains appeared.
Early printed engravings of Chamonix and Mont Blanc by William Windham in 1742 started to attract attention and drew other visitors to the valley. Artists, including William Pars, visited Chamonix in 1770; Linck, Hackert, Terry et al. were attracted by Mont Blanc, whilst the remote Matterhorn, or Cervin, did not become the subject of the artist's brush until early 1800.
Mountaineers, professional men, came to the Alps purely for mountaineering. Some would invite an artist to accompany them to paint the peaks climbed. As a permanent record of their achievements these paintings would also delight and impress friends and acquaintances.
