Nun zeichnete er auf der Strasse nach Santiago von Zapata unter der Cuesta de Prado aus und hielt erwartungsvoll den ersten zauberhaften Blick auf die Andenkette hinter der Hauptstadt fest.

Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858)

The road between Santiago and Valparaíso from the Prado hillside

Details

Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858)
The road between Santiago and Valparaíso from the Prado hillside
signed and dated ‘. Rugendas / Valp^s 1842’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 1/8 x 36 1/8in. (63.9 x 91.7cm.)

Provenance

Presented by Jack M. Barnett, of 41 Store St, London W.C.1. to
The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London, May 1936; sale
Sotheby’s London, 14 May 1970, lot 115 (£1,600 to Agnew).
with Thos. Agnew & Sons (no.32539).
Corporate collection, London, since 1970.

Literature

P. Diener, Rugendas, Augsburg, 1997, CH-O-18 (La cuesta de lo Prado entre Santiago y Valparaíso), p.271, illustrated in black and white p.274.

Exhibited

London, The Hayward Gallery, Art in Latin America The Modern Era 1820-1980, May-Aug. 1989, cat. 113, 3.86, illustrated in colour p.87.

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Lot Essay

For a watercolour of the same subject and for variants see Diener, CH-D-53 and CH-O-19 to -21.

Rugendas paints all the grandeur of the landscape here in another iconic view of Chile, looking down over the Central Valley to the Andes from the road above Valparaiso, a route much travelled by the artist during his residence in Chile between 1834 and 1842. The subject, like his popular series of views looking over Valparaiso from the same road (see the following lot) would be repeated by Ernest Charton during his residence in Valparaiso from 1858-1860 (see for example Charton's The road from Valparaiso to Santiago, Christie's, 22 September 2010, lot 12).

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