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Saturday, July 22, 2023

LES DENTS DU MIDI PEINTES PAR BLANCHE BERTHOUD

BLANCHE BERTHOUD (1864-1938)
Les Dents du Midi (3,114 m à 3,257 m)
Suisse

La peintre
Blanche Berthoud est une artiste peintre suisse de la région de Neufchâtel (Suisse) qui a été très active tout au long de la première moitié du XXe siècle. Elle fait partie de la Société romande des femmes peintres fondée par la peintre Jeanne Lombard (1865-1945) qui défend très farouchement les femmes peintres montagnardes, un monde souvent réservé aux hommes. Elle a réalisé plusieurs peintures et aquarelles du Breithorn, dont l'une a été acquise par le Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Neufchâtel.

La montagne
Les Dents du Midi (3 114 m à 3 257 m -10 216 pi à 10 685 pi) sont un massif montagneux de 3 kilomètres de long situé dans les Alpes du Chablais dans le canton du Valais en Suisse. Dominant au sud la vallée d'Illiez et la vallée du Rhône, elles font face au lac de Salanfe, retenue artificielle, et font partie de l'ensemble géologique du massif du Giffre.
L'appellation « Dents du Midi » est récente. Autrefois appelée "Dents Tsallen". ce n'est que vers la fin du 19e siècle que l'appellation « Dents du Midi » a été officiellement a utilisée. Chaque « dent » a eu plusieurs noms au fil des siècles, selon son évolution géologique.
- La "Cime de l'Est" (3178 mètres) appelée "Mont Novierre" avant le milieu du 17ème siècle, et "Mont Saint-Michel" après des éboulements en 1635 et 1636 et enfin "Dent Noire" (jusqu'au 19ème siècle) .
- La "Dent Jaune" (3186 m) s'appelait la "Dent Rouge" jusqu'en 1879.
- Le "Doigt de Champéry" (en 1882) puis le Doigt Salanfe (en 1886) se transforme juste en "Les Doigts" (Doigts) (3205 m et 3210 m).
- La "Haute Cime" (3257 m) eut aussi plusieurs noms : "Dent de l'Ouest" (jusqu'en 1784) puis "Dent du Midi", "Dent de Tsallen" et "Dent de Challent".
- Quant à l'Eperon (3114 m) (L'Eperon), on suppose qu'il y avait deux sommets mais un éboulement au Moyen Age a considérablement modifié sa crête.
- La Forteresse (3164 m) et la Cathédrale (3160 m) n'ont pas changé de nom.
L'évolution de ce massif se poursuit de nos jours. Ainsi le matin du 30 octobre 2006, un volume de 1 million de m3 de roche se détachait du bord de la Haute Cime et dévalait la pente jusqu'à environ 3000 m d'altitude. L'événement n'a pas présenté de danger pour le village voisin de Val-d'Illiez mais les routes et les sentiers ont été fermés pour des raisons de sécurité. Selon le géologue cantonal, le glissement de terrain a été causé par le dégel des roches, aidé par les étés chauds de ces dernières années.

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2023 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
Un blog de Francis Rousseau

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

LES DENTS DU MIDI PEINTES PAR FELIX VALOTTON

FELIX VALOTTON (1865-1925)
Les Dents du Midi (3,114 m to 3,257 m -10,216 ft to10,685 ft)
Suisse

In "Lac Léman et Les Dents-du-Midi", 1919, Huile sur toile, 38 x 54 cm, Collection privée

Le peintre
Félix Vallotton, peintre d'origine suisse naturalisé français en 1900, est un artiste à cheval sur deux siècles, deux pays et plusieurs tendances esthétiques, des Nabis à la Neue Sachlichkeit (Nouvelle Objectivité). S'il est aujourd'hui moins connu en France qu'en Suisse, c'est pourtant à Paris, dans les années 1890, que ses gravures sur bois novatrices lui ont valu une renommée qui s'est rapidement étendue à l'Europe entière. Tout au long de sa vie le " Nabi étranger ", comme il était surnommé, s'est intéressé à une gamme étendue de sujets récurrents - intérieurs, toilettes, nus féminins, paysages, natures morte, rendus étranges par son style lisse et froid, aux couleurs raffinées, aux découpages et aux cadrages audacieux. Et bien qu'il ne fût pas toujours compris par la critique de son temps, Vallotton a su s'imposer comme une figure en vue de la scène artistique parisienne et trouver sa place dans le courant moderne, notamment en participant à de nombreuses manifestations internationales d'avant-garde devenues mythiques.

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2023 - Wandering Vertexes ....
Errant au-dessus des Sommets Silencieux...
Un blog de Francis Rousseau

Saturday, July 3, 2021

THE DENTS DU MIDI PAINTED BY JEAN-ANTOINE LINCK

JEAN-ANTOINE LINCK (1766 - 1843)
Les Dents du Midi (3,114 m to 3,257 m -10,216 ft to10,685 ft)
Switzerland

In Vue la Dent du Midi et du Château de Lanex prise près d'Aigle, Original coloured etching, 36 x 48 cm

The mountain
The Dents du Midi (Teeth of the south) (3,114 m to 3,257 m -10,216 ft to 10,685 ft) are a mountain range, 3 kilometers long, located in the Chablais Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Overlooking the valley of Illiez and Rhône Valley on south, they face the lake Salanfe, an artificial reservoir, and are part of the geological whole massif Giffre.
The name "Dents du Midi" is recent. The people formerly called them "Dents Tsallen". It was only towards the end of the19e century that the name "Dents du Midi" came officially.
Each « tooth » had several names over the centuries and according to its geological evolution.
- The "Cime de l'Est" (3,178 meters) called "Mont Novierre" before the mid-17th century, and "Mont Saint-Michel "after landslides in 1635 and 1636 and finally "Dent Noire" (until the 19th century).
- The "Dent Jaune" (3,186 m) was called the "Dent Rouge" until 1879.
- The "Doigt de Champéry" (in 1882) and then the Doigt Salanfe (in 1886) turned just into "Les Doigts" (Fingers) (3,205 m and 3210 m).
- The "Haute Cime" (3,257 m) also had many names : "Dent de l’Ouest" (until 1784) and then "Dent du Midi", "Dent de Tsallen" and "Dent de Challent."
- As for l’Eperon (3,114 m) (The Spur), it is assumed that there were two peaks but a landslide in the Middle Ages significantly changed its crest.
- The Forteresse (3,164 m) and the Cathedral (3,160 m) have not changed names.
The evolution of this massif continues nowadays. So on the morning of 30 October 2006, a volume of 1 million m3 of rock broke away from the edge of the Haute Cime and slid down the slope to an altitude of about 3,000 m. The event did not present danger to the nearby village of Val-d'Illiez but roads and trails were closed for security reasons. According to the cantonal geologist, the landslide was caused by the thawing of rocks, helped by warm summers of recent years.

The artist
Jean-Antoine Linck, is a swiss painter and draftsman who lived and worked at the end of the 18th century and beginning of 19th century, at the time nature and mountains were up to date in high society in Switzerland and France.He is the son of Jean-Conrad, an enameller and engraver from Geneva who initiates his apprenticeship. He was then trained by Carl Hackert with Wolfgang Adam Toepffer. In 1802, he opened his own studio in Geneva, in the district of Montbrillant. His works, depicting the surroundings of Geneva, Savoy, the Alps and the Mont Blanc, were inspired by those of the great master of that " genre" Johann Ludwig Aberli and were successful with Josephine de Beauharnais, the French Empress and Catherine II, the Russian Empress, meanwhile alpine tourism began to develop.

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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

Friday, February 21, 2020

LES DENTS BLANCHES PAINTED BY FERDINAND HODLER

FERDINAND HODLER (1853-1918)
Les Dents Blanches / La Dent du Barme (2,759m - 9,051ft)
France - Switzerland border

In Les Dents Blanches in Champery, oil on canvas, 1916, Private collection

The mountain
Les Dents Blanches (The White Teeth) is a mountain range made up of 9 peaks between Champery in Switzerland and Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval (France), in the Giffre massif and overlooking the Illiez valley. The highest peak, Dent de Barme, rises to 2,759m.
Like its neighbor the Tour des Dents du Midi, the Tour des Dents Blanches takes place in stages and over several days. The complete loop covers 44.4 km and has a cumulative elevation of 8,400 meters. This tour exists since 1983 thanks to a collective work of different regions and huts. Together they carried out the tracing of the route, its markup and the securing of certain passages.
With its 4 mountain lakes, the Dents Blanches are the delight of nature lovers. The ibex have made Pas de l'Ours their privileged habitat and marmots are not lacking in appeal. Other treasures of fauna such as ptarmigan and bearded vulture can also be obs

The painter
Ferdinand Hodler is one of the best-known Swiss painters of the 19th century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called Parallelism.
In the last decade of the nineteenth century his work evolved to combine influences from several genres including Symbolism and Art Nouveau. In 1890 he completed Night, a work that marked Hodler's turn toward symbolist imagery. It depicts several recumbent figures, all of them relaxed in sleep except for an agitated man who is menaced by a figure shrouded in black, which Hodler intended as a symbol of death. Hodler developed a style he called "Parallelism" that emphasized the symmetry and rhythm he believed formed the basis of human society. In paintings such as The Chosen One, groupings of figures are symmetrically arranged in poses suggestive of ritual or dance.
Hodler painted number of large-scale historical paintings, often with patriotic themes. In 1897 he accepted a commission to paint a series of large frescoes for the Weapons Room of the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum in Zurich. The compositions he proposed, including The Battle of Marignan which depicted a battle that the Swiss lost, were controversial for their imagery and style, and Hodler was not permitted to execute the frescoes until 1900.
Hodler's work in his final phase took on an expressionist aspect with strongly coloured and geometrical figures. Landscapes were pared down to essentials, sometimes consisting of a jagged wedge of land between water and sky

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2020 - Wandering Vertexes...
Un blog de Francis Rousseau

Sunday, December 9, 2018

LES DENTS DU MIDI PAINTED BY ALEXANDRE CALAME

ALEXANDRE CALAME (1810-1864)

Les Dents du Midi (3,114 m to 3,257 m -10,216 ft to10,685 ft)

Switzerland

In La Dent du Midi, oil on canvas (100 x 140 cm), 1849. Musées d'art et d'histoire, Ville de Genève

The mountain
The Dents du Midi (Teeth of the south) (3,114 m to 3,257 m -10,216 ft to 10,685 ft) are a mountain range, 3 kilometers long, located in the Chablais Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Overlooking the valley of Illiez and Rhône Valley on south, they face the lake Salanfe, an artificial reservoir, and are part of the geological whole massif Giffre.
The name "Dents du Midi" is recent. The people formerly called them "Dents Tsallen". It was only towards the end of the19e century that the name "Dents du Midi" came officially.
Each « tooth » had several names over the centuries and according to its geological evolution.
- The "Cime de l'Est" (3,178 meters) called "Mont Novierre" before the mid-17th century, and "Mont Saint-Michel "after landslides in 1635 and 1636 and finally "Dent Noire" (until the 19th century).
- The "Dent Jaune" (3,186 m) was called the "Dent Rouge" until 1879.
- The "Doigt de Champéry" (in 1882) and then the Doigt Salanfe (in 1886) turned just into "Les Doigts" (Fingers) (3,205 m and 3210 m).
- The "Haute Cime" (3,257 m) also had many names : "Dent de l’Ouest" (until 1784) and then "Dent du Midi", "Dent de Tsallen" and "Dent de Challent."
- As for l’Eperon (3,114 m) (The Spur), it is assumed that there were two peaks but a landslide in the Middle Ages significantly changed its crest.
- The Forteresse (3,164 m) and the Cathedral (3,160 m) have not changed names.
The evolution of this massif continues nowadays. So on the morning of 30 October 2006, a volume of 1 million m3 of rock broke away from the edge of the Haute Cime and slid down the slope to an altitude of about 3,000 m. The event did not present danger to the nearby village of Val-d'Illiez but roads and trails were closed for security reasons. According to the cantonal geologist, the landslide was caused by the thawing of rocks, helped by warm summers of recent years.

The Painter
Alexandre Calame )was a Swiss painter. He was the son of a skillful marble worker in Vevey. His father lost the family fortune, and Alexandre Calame was forced to work in a bank at the age of 15. When his father fell from a building and then died, the young Calame provided for his mother.
In his spare time he began to practice drawing small views of Switzerland. In 1829 he met his patron, the banker Diodati, who made it possible for him to study under landscape painter François Diday. After a few months he decided to devote himself fully to art.
In 1835, he began exhibiting his Swiss-Alps and forest paintings in Paris and Berlin. He became quite well known, especially in Germany, although Calame was more a drawer than an illustrator. He is associated with the Dusseldorf school of painting. In 1842 he went to Paris and displayed his works Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau, the Brienzersee, the Monte Rosa and Mont Cervin. He taught in Geneva, where Adolf Mosengel was one of his pupils.
He went to Italy in 1844 and brought back from Rome and Naples countless paintings, among them one of the ruins of Paestum (in the city museum in Leipzig). He showed that he was capable of understanding Italian nature; but the Alps remained his speciality.
The glaciers, emerald-green, white foaming mountain water, which split the trees during the storm, and the whipped clouds, the multi-colored rocks, half masked from fog, in the rays of the gleaming sun, are those things, which he knew to be true to nature.
One of his most ingenious works is the representation of the four seasons and times of the day in four landscapes, a spring morning in the south, a summer midday in the Nordic flatlands, an Autumn evening, and a winter night on a mountain. He became popular with these large works, and his popularity grew with smaller pieces and lithographies, namely 18 studies of Lauterbrunnen and Meiringen and the 24 sheets of Alpine passes. These were widespread in France, England, and Germany and are still today used to teach this style of painting.
An exhibition featuring more than thirty of Calame's paintings was held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 2006.

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2018 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

COL DU GEANT PHOTOGRAPHED BY BISSON FRERES

BISSON FRERES

Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814-1876) and Auguste-Rosalie (1826-1900) Bisson

The Col du Géant (3,356m - 11, 010 ft)

France - Italy border

Photographed in 1860

The mountain

The col du Géant (Pass of the Giant) (3,356 m) is the main passage of the Mont Blanc massif between Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley and Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in the valley of the Arve. On the French side, to the north is the Glacier du Géant which overlooks the Mer de Glace.

The pass is located between the summits of the Tour Ronde and the Dent du Géant. Close to the pass are Helbronner Peak and the Torino refuge, where the Panoramic Mont-Blanc cable car arrives, which joins on one side the Aiguille du Midi and the other La Palud near Entrêves.

About the Col du Géant there is a pending dispute over the course of the frontier between France and Italy, similar to that concerning the summit of Mont Blanc. The Italian make the frontier passing in the Col du Géant, whereas on French maps the frontier passes a hundred meters to the south, the Col du Géant being entirely in France. This dispute was revived in 2015, following the ban on access to the Géant glacier from the Torino refuge, by the Chamonix town hall authorities, for security reasons. The Italian newspaper La Stampa noted that if this dispute is anachronistic in the context of the European Community, it could nevertheless pose a problem of "criminal and civil liability if incidents were to occur in the icy zone. "

The photographers

Bisson Frères (Bisson Brothers) were among the best-known European photographers of the1850s and 1860s. Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814–1876) was a 19th-century French photographer who opened a photographic studio in early 1841. Soon after, his brother Auguste-Rosalie Bisson (1826–1900) entered into partnership with him. Their studio was in the La Madeleine in Paris, and they became famous as the Bisson Frères. In 1860, they accompanied the french Emperor Napoleon III and his wife Empress Eugénie, on the occasion of the reunion of Savoy with France. The Bissons Brothers went to Chamonix to attempt the ascent of Mont-Blanc. They failed to reach the summit but the large glass negatives they produced during the climb were the basis of an album of twenty-four superb Alpine views. Their most famous body of work is comprised of the high-altitude photographs they made in the Alps during the climbing seasons of 1859-1862. Despite the arduous conditions, the Bissons captured this masterful scene of an epic struggle by men intent on conquering nature--set against a magnificent landscape.Having received an encouraging response to his work, the following year Auguste ascended Mont Blanc, taking with him twenty-five porters to carry his equipment. The photographs were made using the Collodion process, with very large negatives, often up to 30 cm x 40 cm (12" x 16"). The brothers refused to reduce their images to the carte de visite size and, consequently, after four years, they ceased operating their business. One of the most famous works attributed to this artist is his photograph of the writer Honoré de Balzac and the portrait of the composer Frédéric Chopin. The origin of the portrait of Chopin has never been adequately explained and, subsequently, the image was excluded from the "Les frères Bisson Photographes" exhibition at the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1999 in Paris.