St. Saveur Pont de Sia (Route de Gavarnie)
Artist
Joseph Vicomte Vigier
(French, 1821 - 1894)
Date1853
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 14 × 10 1/2 inches (35.56 × 26.67 cm)
Mount: 21 3/8 × 16 3/4 inches (54.29 × 42.55 cm)
Mount: 21 3/8 × 16 3/4 inches (54.29 × 42.55 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation in honor of the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Object number2008.25.26
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, top center, in black pen: "St. Saveur.";
On mount recto, bottom center, in black pen: "Pont de Sia. (Route de gavarnie)".
MarkingsOn mount recto, lower left, in pencil: "16";
On mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "15".
On View
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DescriptionImage of a bridge leading to a small road with rustic houses, cutting through a steep mountain pass.Exhibition HistoryMagnificent Gifts for the 75th. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 13 - April 4, 2010, no cat.
Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 19, 2013 - February 9, 2014, Saint Louis Art Museum, March 16 - July 6, 2014, no. 97.
Joseph Vigier, a founding member of the Société Héliographique in Paris, was a student of Gustave Le Gray. While traveling through the Pyrenees in the summer of 1853, Vigier produced several hundred mountain views (along with some views of Spain). Soon after, he published a small-edition album of 38 prints, the Album des Pyrénées, which represented his finest work and was regarded as a tour de force by his contemporaries. This particular view, one of 16 in the album made in and around the St. Saveur region, is characteristic of Vigier’s carefully composed scenes.
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