Mont Blanc Mountain Paintings Monte Bianco

Mont Blanc Paintings - Dipinti - Tableaux Monte Bianco - Chamonix - Mer de Glace Montanverts - val d’Aoste - Courmayeur

Pars, William. [1742-1782] attrib.

Mont Blanc and Aiguilles Rouges -

la Barme Rousse passage of the Tete Noire.

c1770 watercolour    23 x 31.5 cms.

Bleuler, Johann Heinrich [1758-1823]

Vue nocturne du pont Saint-Martin,

le Mont-Blanc au fond c1800 gouache.

 Vue du Montblanc, prise de St. Martin'  

32.5 x 48.5 cms. framed & glazed.

after Kokoschka, Oskar [1886 - 1980]

Chamonix - Mont Blanc  

oil on hardboard not signed

51 x 65 cms.

Paintings of Mont Blanc Tableaux de Montagne Dipinti di Monte Bianco

Mer de Glace and Montanvert

Cozens, John Robert. [1752-1797] attrib. Martigny (Mount Blanc). c1776 oil on wooden panel. Cozens accompanied Richard Payne Knight, as artist, in 1776 on a tour of Switzerland, which included Martigny after Chamonix. 21 x 32.5 cms.

Martigny (Mount Blanc)

Croft, Arthur. [1828 -1902]

Mont Blanc - Grand Charmoz and Aiguilles Blatieres

from le Flegere. c1870 watercolour.  55 x 74 cms.

Payne, William c.1776? [1760-1830] Mer de Glace and Montanvert 1821 watercolour. signed by the artist lower left with date  21.3 x 30.7 cms.

Pritchard, Thomas. [fl. 1866-1877] The Mer de Glace, Montanvert and Dru. 1869 watercolour. signed T.H.O. Pritchard bottom right and dated. 55.5 x 68 cms.

The Mer de Glace, Montanvert

Marshall, Charles [1806-1890] Mont Blanc from St. Roch, above Sallanches. Haut-Faucigny 1867 oil on board. signed and dated lower right. 31 x 47 cms.

Mont Blanc from St. Roch

Powell, Eric Walter [1886-1933] Grand Charmoz (North Face) and Aig de Blaitiere. c1920 watercolour. from a collection of paintings by this Eton master. 22 x 29 cms.

Grand Charmoz  and Aig de Blaitiere

Poole, James (Mountain)  [1804 -1886] Mont Blanc and Bossons Glacier. c1850 watercolour. signed 'J. Poole' lower right. 50 x 37 cms.

Mont Blanc and Bossons Glacier

Bates, David [1841-1921]

The Grand St Bernard and Hospice. 1885 oil on canvas. signed and dated. 59 x 90 cms. original gilt frame and glazed.

The Grand St Bernard and Hospice

Collingwood Smith, Wm. [1815-1887]

Mont Blanc from the Jura. c1850? watercolour heightened with white   bodycolour. signed lower right. 31 x 55.5 cms.

Mont Blanc from the Jura

A.P.  (monogram) Mont Blanc (and the Glacier de Bossons). c1850 watercolour. signed with monogram bottom left and title bottom right. 38 x 27.5 cms.

Glacier de Bossons

Smith, James Whittet [exh. 1874 -1891]

The Rochers de Fiz and Glacier de Boissons from near the Pierre Pointre?? c1875 watercolour. signed label. bought at the sale of C.E. Mathews (President of the Alpine Club). 35 x 65 cms.

Rochers de Fiz and

Glacier de Boissons

Goodwin, Harry. [1840 -1925] Mont Blanc from Finhaut. 1906 watercolour. signed with monogram and date. 51.5 x 34.5 cms.

Walton, Elijah. [1832-1880] Mont Blanc and Col d'Anterne as seen above Sixt. 1878 watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white. signed with title and date verso. 50.5 x 35 cms.

Mont Blanc from Finhaut

Mont Blanc and Col d’Anterne

Rooke, Noel A.R.E. [1881-1953] Grandes Jorasses and Mer de Glace, The. c1920 watercolour signed l.r. and on verso with title and address of artist. 38 x 54 cms.

Blampied, Clifford George [1875-?] Mont Blanc. c1910 watercolour. signed. 45 x 36 cms.

Mont Blanc

Grandes Jorasses and Mer de Glace

Cane, Alice M. Mont Blanc from Trelechant. 1928 watercolour. monogram and titled with date.  35 x 25 cms.

Mont Blanc from Trelechant

Chamouni from the Col de Vosa

Mont Blanc and Chamonix

Aiguille Verte and Dru

Vue du Pavilion Montanvert

Aiguille Rouge - Vue de Finhaut

Aiguilles de Chamonix

Engleheart, Evelyn.  Chamouni from the Col de Vosa. 21 July 1854 watercolour. titled and dated. 17.5 x 22.5 cms.

Bartlett, William Henry [1809 - 1854] Mont Blanc and Chamonix. c1825 the original pen and ink drawing. engraved on steel for 'Switzerland  Illustrated'. 11.5 x 16.5 cms.

Bright, Henry [1810-1873] after. Aiguille Verte and Dru from Chamonix. c1850 watercolour with traces of pencil.  36 x 24 cms.

Armstrong, Charles. [1864-?] Aiguille Rouge - Vue de Finhaut. c1900 watercolour.  33 x 23 cms.

Koahlin??,Carolin. Vue du Pavillon au Glacier de l'Aar inferieur dessine d'apres natur en Aout 1847 par watercolour. signed with monogram and date b.r. 24 x 33 cms.

Barnard, Rev. W.H. [1769-1818] Chamonix May 13th. 1814. 1814 watercolour.  21 x 31 cms.

English school Near Servoz on the road leading to Chamonix. 1832 watercolour with fine gum arabic. title with date Feby. 1832 in artists ink on verso. 27.5 x 35 cms.

Chamonix

Near Servoz

Haile, Sam [1909-1948]  Aiguilles de Chamonix, Haute Savoie. 1938 watercolour. signed Haile bottom left & further signed, inscribed and dated 1938 on the reverse. 46.5 x 60 cms.

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.

Some artists painted the Alps for their beauty alone. Ruskin and Turner travelled the chain of the Alps through Switzerland, France and Italy, whilst native artists were able to enjoy and paint the majestic scenery close at hand.

J.L. Aberli, F. Diday, A. Calame, S. Birmann, G. Loppe, A. Gos, to name a few.

Paintings by artists of such reknown were costly and beyond the reach of most. Book illustration, especially in colour chromolithography, became the medium to display such splendour, although demanding a high price, such works could be enjoyed by more than just the owner.

Compton, Edward Theodore. [1849-1921]

Mont Blanc from Combloux   1892

watercolour and pencil. signed with title

and date  lower right. on verso in ink

‘3. Mont Blanc fr. Combloux £10 ‘ 25 x 37 cms.