View towards Andermatt from the Turm in Hospental, Switzerland
Description:
View of the Urseren Valley, with the medieval watch tower of Hospental in the right foreground, looking northwards towards Andermatt. Oil on panel, probably mahoghany, 16.1/2″ x 12.1/2″ (41.8 cm x 31.8 cm), signed lower right “Muller-Ury” and in the lower centre “Andermatt 1908”. The back of the panel bears a stamp ‘F. Dupré, 141, Faubourg St. Honoré 141, coin de la Rue Berri, Paris’.
Location:
Private Collection, Switzerland.
Provenance:
The Misses Iva, Doris & Ines Müller, Andermatt, Switzerland.
American Art News, Vol. 7, No. 2, New York, October 24, 1908, p. 3, said that whilst in Switzerland in the summer Müller-Ury had painted ‘three panels representing glimpses of the mountains’ which were ‘…combined in a screen.’ This may have been the artist’s intention, for the three panels known are approximately the same size, and bear the stamp from the same supplier in Paris, and are today in the same private Swiss collection.
One panel, however, is, of a finer quality than the other two, and bears the date 1911.
