Skip to main content
Video Loading
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 13

Unknown
The Fair Skipper: boating on a mountain lake ca 1830 the Swiss Alps painting

ca 1830

About the Item

Here is an almost two hundred year old painting which is so irresistibly charming that it's crazy! You may have seen painted landscapes, portraits, genre scenes - but how many pretty lady skippers on a mountain lake? Dating from circa 1830, termed the "romantic" period in French art, the scene may be based on the story of the skipper Elisabetha Grossmann. This is likely as the French playwright Eugène Scribe wrote a play about her her life in 1827. Of humble origins, a local aristocrat paid for Elisabetha's eduction when she was a girl.. Elisabetha ferried tourists over the Lake Brienz in the early 19th-century Switzerland and became herself a famous tourist attraction for being beautiful and cultured. A rich man fell in love with her, proposed, but broke off the engagement due to pressure from his family. Elisabetha subsequently married a violent drunkard, escaped and divorced, then later found happiness in a second marriage with a younger man. How is that for a story? The painting comes a Parisian apartment where it had been in the same family for generations. There seems to be a trace of a signature and date 1834 (?) on the boat. The work is presented in its original frame. Canvas size alone: 61 x 50 cm.
  • Creation Year:
    ca 1830
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 29.14 in (74 cm)Width: 25.6 in (65 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Stable craqulure, inpainting visible under UV, roughly hewn original canvas has thinned. Surface wear/epidermures on the paint due to the structure of the canvas. Minor wear and tear to frame.
  • Gallery Location:
    Norwich, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU991313630152
More From This SellerView All
You May Also Like
  • Romantic Portrait, Herman Richir, Brussels 1866 – 1942, Belgian Painter
    Located in Bruges, BE
    Romantic Portrait Richir Herman Brussels 1866 – 1942 Belgian Painter Signature: Attributed to Richir Herman Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 59,50 x 58,50 cm, frame size 62 x 61 cm Biography: Richir Herman Jean Joseph was born in Ixelles (Brussels), on November 4, 1866. He was a Belgian painter of portraits, still lifes, genre paintings, nudes and landscapes. He made decorative paintings to fit into private homes. Richir mainly painted portraits. His clients usually belonged to the higher circles. He portrayed amongst others King Albert and Queen Elisabeth, Cardinal Mercier and Countess d’Oultremont. Less known are the landscape paintings he made Limburg and Kempen, where he regularly stayed with befriended artist Emile Van Doren (1865 – 1949). Herman Richir first studied at the Sint-Joost-ten-Node Academy with Gustave Biot and Charles Hermans, continued his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (1884-1889) with the master teacher and artist Jean-Francois Portaels (1818 – 1895). In 1886, during his studies, he won second Prize of Rome for Painting. Richir lived in Schaarbeek. In 1900 he became a teacher of drawing and in 1905 first teacher of painting after nature at the Brussels Academy. He was director there several times 1906-1907, 1910, 1911, 1915-1919, 1925-1927. He was retired in 1927. His pupils included Albert Alleman (1892 – 1933), Éliane de Meuse (1899 – 1993), Paul Hagemans (1884 – 1959), Maurice Mareels (1893 – 1976), Guy Onkelinx (1879 – 1935), Georges Rogy (1897 – 1981), José Storie (1899 – 1961), Charles Swyncop (1895 – 1970), Maurice Schelck...
    Category

    19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Melancholy female figure oil on canvas painting
    By Josep Maria Draper
    Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
    Josep María Draper was born in 1931 and received a great creative influence from the 1950s. Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting tha...
    Category

    1990s Romantic Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Female Oil Portrait Delicate Austria Romantic 1800s Vintage Woman Realism Signed
    Located in Milwaukee, WI
    Art: 30" x 24" Frame: 36.50" x 30.50" Oil on canvas signed and dated lower right.
    Category

    1880s Romantic Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • French Romantic School, 19th Century, Manly head of bearded man, oil on canvas
    Located in Paris, FR
    French Romantic School 19th Century Manly head of bearded man oil on canvas 46 x 37.8 cm In fairly good condition, some inpaintings visible under UV light, mainly in the backgrounds ...
    Category

    1850s Romantic Portrait Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Untitled - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female Portrait, Vibrant
    By Katarzyna Szydlowska
    Located in Warsaw, PL
    KATARZYNA SZYDLOWSKA (born in 1969) Katarzyna Szydlowska studied at the European Academy of Arts under prof. Jerzy Duda Gracz, Antoni Fa?at and Franciszek S...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Oil, Canvas

  • A portrait - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Subtle Female, Polish artist
    By Katarzyna Szydlowska
    Located in Warsaw, PL
    KATARZYNA SZYDLOWSKA (born in 1969) Katarzyna Szydlowska studied at the European Academy of Arts under prof. Jerzy Duda Gracz, Antoni Fa?at and Franciszek Starowieyski. She received ...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

Recently Viewed

View All