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Auguste Mayer (French, 1805-1890)
"Basalt rocks of Dverghamr…
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Auguste Mayer (French, 1805-1890)
"Basalt rocks of Dverghamr…
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
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Auguste Mayer (French, 1805-1890)
"Basalt rocks of Dverghamrar", 1836
Watercolour.
Signed, dated and situated lower left: Dverghamrar, 11 July 1836, A. Mayer .
On verso, measurements and pencil lines.
Height: 27 cm 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. Dverghamrar basalt rocks. Watercolour. 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 plate 75: Rochers basaltiques de Dverghamrar. These rocks, made of porphyroid mimosite, are reminiscent of the beautiful colonnades of the Giant's Causeway in Orkney.
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