View of a bridge over the Colares river near Sintra
Sintra (Cintra) is a summer resort near Lisbon on the 'Portuguese Riviera' that historically has been frequented by the royal family and the nobility. Much of the architecture is in the neo-Renaissance style built in the nineteenth century.
This is from a collection of picturesque views of Sintra by the lithographer and sometime painter Clementine de Brelaz. She was born in Lisbon in 1811, and migrated to Switzerland, as a Protestant convert. According to Carl Brun (Schweizerisches Künstler Lexikon), Brelaz was taught in Geneva by the Swiss landscape painter Alexandre Calame (1810–64), presumably during the 1830s. The series of plates are from a set of 18 with a title ‘Coquis de Cintra: Dessines d’apres et lithographies par CNE B.’, Lisbon, Litografia de Manuel Luis, 1840.
This is from a collection of picturesque views of Sintra by the lithographer and sometime painter Clementine de Brelaz. She was born in Lisbon in 1811, and migrated to Switzerland, as a Protestant convert. According to Carl Brun (Schweizerisches Künstler Lexikon), Brelaz was taught in Geneva by the Swiss landscape painter Alexandre Calame (1810–64), presumably during the 1830s. The series of plates are from a set of 18 with a title ‘Coquis de Cintra: Dessines d’apres et lithographies par CNE B.’, Lisbon, Litografia de Manuel Luis, 1840.
Artwork Details
- Title: View of a bridge over the Colares river near Sintra
- Artist: Clementine de Brelaz (Portuguese, 1811–1892)
- Lithographer: Manuel Luis (Portuguese, active, ca. 1840)
- Date: 1840
- Medium: Lithograph on chine collé on a larger support sheet
- Dimensions: Sheet: 13 11/16 × 20 7/8 in. (34.8 × 53 cm)
Image (Sheet with image): 8 3/8 × 12 1/8 in. (21.2 × 30.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, 2020
- Object Number: 2020.152
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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