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Lot 144 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
Closed15 December 2016
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GBP 197,000
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Specialist note
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).
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).