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Otto Weber
The first snow on the alpine pastures (La Première Neige sur l'Alm) (1866)
oil on canvas
118.5 × 222.7 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1868
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The first snow on the alpine pastures
(La Première Neige sur l'Alm)
(1866)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
118.5 × 222.7 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1868
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Acquired for Melbourne in 1868 this is one of the earliest monumental European landscape paintings to enter the NGV’s collection. It proved to be a very influential painting as it was often copied by students at the National Gallery School. It was shown at the Paris Salon in 1866, just two years before it came to Australia.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.r.: Otto Weber.
Accession Number
p.301.9-1
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Animals Human Figures Landscapes
Subjects (specific)
cattle goat (genus) herding livestock mountain landscapes (visual works) mountain ranges peaks (landforms) snow (precipitation)
Provenance
Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1866, no. 1968; acquired from the artist for The French Gallery (dealer), London,
c. 1866; there exhibited, 1867; from where purchased by Alfred Taddy Thompson for the NGV, 1868.
Salon, Paris, 1866, no. 1968; The French Gallery, London, 1867; The First Collections, University Gallery, Melbourne, 1992.