Watercolour: Hospental, Switzerland, 4 August 1894
Description:
Watercolour and pencil on white wove paper from a sketchbook, 14.6 x 23.7 cm. Inscribed ‘Hospenthal, 4 August 94.’ The verso has in a different hand to the artist ‘In between 16 + 24’ written upon it.
Location:
Private Collection, London, UK.
Provenance:
Adelina Gähler-Müller; Margrit Gähler, Herisau; by descent from her nephew Peter Conrad.
One of a group of three watercolours of Hospental created in the summer of 1894, previously framed and glazed.
Removed from the old mounts for cleaning and de-acidification in 1996; however acid lines remain visible on the margins. It must be assumed that having been hung in the light for many years the watercolour has somewhat faded.
