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Auguste Mayer (French, 1805-1890)
Path to the Geysers, 1836
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Auguste Mayer (French, 1805-1890)
Path to the Geysers, 1836
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See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
Auguste Mayer (French, 1805-1890)
Path to the Geysers, 1836
Three pencil or watercolour drawings with white highlights, signed, dated and located:
- Eruption of the Great Geysir.
- General view of Almannagja, taken from the temple of Ingvellir.
- Bruara cataract, road from ingvellir to the Geysirs.
Height 27 Width 44 cm.
Provenance: collection of Paul Guieysse (1841-1914), General Councillor for the canton of Lorient-Nord (1881-1889 and 1898-1901), Member of Parliament for Morbihan between 1890 and 1910 and Minister for the Colonies between 1895 and 1896; by family transmission, private collection, Paris.
Mayer. Path to the Geysers. Three pencil and watercolour drawings. 1836.
Bibliography: Joseph Paul Gaimard, "Voyage en Islande et au Groënland exécuté pendant les années 1835 et 1836 sur la corvette La Recherche dans le but de découvrir les traces de La Lilloise", Paris, Bertrand, preparatory drawings for plates 34, 39 and 41.
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