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Self-portrait (before 1800) Mont-Blanc from Sallanches at Sunset (1802) Pierre-Louis De la Rive (21 October 1753, Geneva - 7 October 1817, Presinge) was a Swiss painter, engraver and designer. His works helped originate the Geneva School of landscape painting and he was often referred to as the "inventor" of the Alpine landscape.
Together with the first ascent of Mont Mallet in Chamonix’s Grandes Jorasses range, Loppé made over forty ascents of Mont Blanc during his climbing career, which lasted until the late 1890s. [4] Loppé frequently made oil sketches from alpine summits, including a panorama of the view from the summit of Mont Blanc.
In 1851 Martens was renowned as one of the best tablotypists (according to Henry Fox Talbot). [7] This year, Martens exhibited several albumen prints of architectural views at the Great Exhibition in London, for which he was awarded the Council Medal. [8] Also on view was his panorama of Mont Blanc created with 14 calotypes.
View of Mont Blanc from Geneva He arranged for his daughter to marry a wealthy art collector and, after forty years of teaching and chairing the art society, died wealthy himself at the advanced age of 81, surviving his even more famous son by over a year.
Mont Blanc (BrE: / ˌ m ɒ̃ ˈ b l ɒ̃ (k)/; AmE: / ˌ m ɒ n (t) ˈ b l ɑː ŋ k /) [a] is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, and the highest mountain in Europe outside the Caucasus Mountains, rising 4,805.59 m (15,766 ft) [1] above sea level, located on the Franco-Italian border. [3]
Meisterstück’s Au 750 solid gold nibs are engraved with “4810,” the height of the Mont Blanc mountain in meters. Montblanc
Panoramic view of the north side of the Mont Blanc massif from left to right: Dent du Géant, Mer de Glace, Aiguilles de Chamonix, Mont Blanc, Dôme du Goûter and Aiguille du Goûter. The geographer Jean Miège underlines the significance of water as the primary asset and driving force behind the emergence of tourism in the former duchy of ...
The so-called Top of the Mont Blanc is a collection piece on display in the Oval Room of Teylers Museum. [1] The specimen was cut off from the highest findable piece of exposed rock of the Rocher de la Tournette , 4,677 metres (15,344 ft) high on the snow covered summit ridge of the Mont Blanc on 3 August 1787, during one of the first climbs of ...