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Église St. Vincent, Montreux, Switzerland
Samuel L. Gerry (1813–91)
Signed, lower left: “S L Gerry.”; undated, circa 1875
Oil on canvas (22 x 13 in.)
Collection of Charles and Gloria Vogel
On November 10 and 11, 1875, a large collection of Gerry’s work was auctioned through Williams and Everett of Boston, including this picture of the Église St. Vincent. The sale was well publicized in Boston newspapers, which announced that 121 of Gerry’s paintings—“Mr. Gerry’s entire collection,” according to the Boston Evening Transcript—were available. The Daily Advertiser was impressed by Gerry’s work, stating, “The display is very creditable to the artist and is of perhaps unusual interest to the public, from the fact that it includes not only images of many scenes of well-known home picturesqueness, but also authentic portraits of favorite bits of foreign landscape.” Gerry had spent most of 1873 and 1874 in Europe, mainly in Switzerland and France.
