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Vintage on the banks of the Arve near Geneva

Oil Painting
1857 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Paul Edouard Rischgitz (1828-1909) was born in Geneva. He became a pupil of Corot in France and subsequently spent four years working for the Minton porcelain factory. He settled in London in 1870 and was engaged as a tutor to the royal family.

Rischgitz was essentially a landscape painter in the tradition inaugurated by Corot and the Realist movement in France. It depicts a group of people harvesting grapes in a sunny day. This painting is a fine example of his oeuvre characterised by a free brushwork, warm palette and subtle light effects. This type of painting was particularly popular in the second half of the 19th century.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleVintage on the banks of the Arve near Geneva
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Vintage on the Banks of the Arves near Geneva', Paul Edouard Rischgitz, Swiss school, 1857
Physical description
A group of people harvesting grapes in a vineyard with a house surrounded by trees in the mid distance.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 45.7cm
  • Estimate width: 75cm
Dimensions taken from C.M. Kauffmann, Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, II. 1800-1900, London, Victoria and Albert Museum,1973
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'E. Rischgitz 1857' (Signed and dated by the artist, lower right)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend
Object history
Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, listed in the 1868 post-mortem register of the contents of his villa in Lausanne (V&A R/F MA/1/T1181) as 'Oil on Canvas. Vintage on the banks of the Arves, near Geneva. By Edward Rischgitz. In frame. Signed. Swiss. Dated 1857'; bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, 1868.

Historical significance: This painting was bequeathed by the Rev. Townshend who owned a large collection of 19th-century landscape paintings. It is not unlikely that Townshend, who resided part of the year in Lausanne, acquired this painting directly from the artist.
Subject depicted
Place depicted
Summary
Paul Edouard Rischgitz (1828-1909) was born in Geneva. He became a pupil of Corot in France and subsequently spent four years working for the Minton porcelain factory. He settled in London in 1870 and was engaged as a tutor to the royal family.

Rischgitz was essentially a landscape painter in the tradition inaugurated by Corot and the Realist movement in France. It depicts a group of people harvesting grapes in a sunny day. This painting is a fine example of his oeuvre characterised by a free brushwork, warm palette and subtle light effects. This type of painting was particularly popular in the second half of the 19th century.
Bibliographic reference
Kauffmann, C.M. Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, II. 1800-1900 , London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, pp. 85-86, cat. no. 186.
Collection
Accession number
1583-1869

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Record createdApril 23, 2007
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