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Alpine Landscape
Samuel L. Gerry (1813–91)
Signed and dated, lower right on rock: “Gerry. / Rome. 1851”
Oil on canvas (22 3/8 x 30 1/4 in.)
Courtesy of the Morton and Marie Bradley Memorial Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
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Gerry sketched in the Alps during all three of his European trips. On his first visit, starting in 1849, he stayed in Switzerland about a month, mostly in the Valley of Meiringen in the Bernese highlands. He painted this scene while still in Europe in 1851, later describing in a September 1860 article in the Boston Evening Transcript what he called “the pinnacled grandeur of the Alps.” This work may well be the painting titled Valley of Meyrengen, Switzerland, that Gerry exhibited at the New England Art Union in 1852.
