Marguerite Junod (1883-1968) - Swiss Desalp - Mountain - Oil On Canvas

Marguerite REUTTER-JUNOD (1883-1968)

Swiss Désalpe - Loading the Gruyère Stones
Oil on canvas signed lower right, titled and dated 1947 lower left
Framed

Size (canvas) : 33 x 41 cm
Size (frame) : 41 x 49 cm

Amusing scene of life in the Swiss Alps representing the loading of gruyere cheese wheels for the desalping. Possible name (to be deciphered) of the subject of the subject and/or the place after the desalp in the lower left corner.

To note a somewhat distended canvas and pinholes in the corners.

Born in Switzerland in La Chaux-de-Fonds and died in Lausanne. Painter, watercolourist and sculptor, member of the Société romande des femmes peintres et sculpteurs (SRFP), a society created to compensate for the exclusion of its members on the basis of their sex society created to compensate for the exclusion of its members on the basis of gender by the Swiss Artists' Reference Society (SPSAS). Marguerite Junod designed the posters for the first two exhibitions of this society held at the Grenette in Lausanne in 1903 and 1906. In 1908, it became the Swiss Society of Women Painters and Sculptors (SSFPSD).
Marguerite Junod presented mainly landscapes and genre scenes of the Alps.