Sep 19, 2024 - Sale 2678

Sale 2678 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
BENJAMIN WEST (1738-1820)
Alpine Landscape.

Pen and gray ink on blue laid paper, circa 1763. 282x428 mm; 11⅛x16⅞ inches.

Provenance
William Drummond, Bury Street Gallery, London.
Purchased from the above by current owner, Michigan, October 20, 1986.

Additional Details

Benjamin West journeyed from Italy to France in 1763. The present work bears similarities to West's Mountain Village, which depicts Bonneville, a small mountain village in the Haute-Savoie, near Lake Geneva.