National Gallery of Art · Drawing
An Ancient Pine Forest with a Mountain Stream
Alexandre Calame
- Date
- 1847
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache over charcoal on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 61.2 x 84.2 cm (24 1/8 x 33 1/8 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 1999.126.1
- Credit line
- Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke
- Time span
- 1826 to 1850
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- topographical
- landscape
- Romantic
- Swiss
- Waterfall
Provenance
(August Laube, Zurich); purchased 1999 by NGA.
Inscription
in image, lower left on rock: A. Calame; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 37534
NGA object ID 110822. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.