"Giroux André (1801-1879) "le Bout-du-monde In The Allevard Ravine, French Alps" Oil/canvas"
"View taken from the French Alps at a place called Le bout-du-monde in the Allevard ravine"André GIROUX (Paris 1801 - Id 1879).
Oil on canvas.
Its gilded wooden frame, from the 19th century.
Dimensions: H 84 x W 53 cm.
The hunters hiding behind a rock, near the Bréda torrent, await the arrival of the chamois, in the background the Gleisen glacier develops...
Our painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1837, No 848. It is the sketch of a very large painting (326 x 262 cm) commissioned in 1831 for the Ministry of the Interior.
It was exhibited at the Luxembourg Museum in the 1860s-1870s, then exhibited at the Louvre Museum.
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