Oct 14, 2014 - Sale 2360

Sale 2360 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
RENÉ MICHAUD (DATES UNKNOWN) VILLARS - BRETAYE. 1920.
39x28 inches, 100x71 cm. Simplon, Lausanne.
Condition B+ / A-: repaired tears in margins, some affecting text; restored losses and overpainting in margins; repaired pin holes in corners.
The train ride up the Col de Bretaye, in Switzerland's Vaud Canton, was originally operated by two companies, the Bex-Gryon-Villars (BGV) Railway and the Villars-Bretaye (VB) line, both of whose rolling stock is seen in this image of a train pulling into its mountain terminus. Voyage p. 117.