Winter House in Swiss Foothills 19th century Landscape French Impressionist ^Sale

Attributed to Gabriel Loppé (1825 - 1913). Experience an mysterious narrative, executed in the quick, confident strokes of the famous French mountaineering artist. This landscape takes us to a lonely path leading to a half-abandoned house in the foothills of Switzerland. Let your imagination discover the unusual performance and atmosphere of this captivating plot. Oil painting on wooden panel, signed, framed.
Size app.: 31.6 x 23.8 cm (roughly 12.4 x 9.4 in), frame is 53 x 44 cm (roughly 20.9 x 17.3 in). Overall in good condition with craquelure, age and usage wear. Please study good resolution images for cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 2.2 kg is going to measure 4 kg packed for shipment.
Loppé is often labeled as a pupil of Calame and his rival François Diday. In 1846, during an excursion to Meiringen in Switzerland, he met the mountaineer Beresford Walker who introduced him to the joys and dangers of mountaineering. Loppé becomes the first painter to work at high altitude, taking advantage of his expeditions and earning the right to be considered the founder of the school of painter-alpinists, which established itself in Savoy at the end of the 19th century. Loppé produced an impressive quantity of works: canvases of different formats, some monumental, representing glacier ascents with the inclusion of tiny characters, gaping crevasses, glacial lakes, valleys under the snow. His first exhibition was held in 1852. He subsequently moved to Geneva in 1862. Loppé was fascinated by the glacial landscapes of the Chamonix valley and by the Mont Blanc of which he made around 40 ascents. British mountaineer and writer Sir Leslie Stephen joked: 'Gabriel Loppé is the court painter to His Majesty Mont Blanc'. Loppe's paintings were, and still are, famous for their atmosphere and their spontaneity and were exhibited many times in London and Paris. His paintings are sold all over the world.