Lot 173: JAKOB CHRISTOPH MIVILLE BASEL 1786 - 1836

two signed on the verso: Miville, the other: Miville Basel, fec.

watercolour over black chalk

THREE ALPINE VIEWS, TWO SHOWING ST. GOTHARD AND THE RIGI

each circa 220 by 306 mm

QUANTITY: 3

Miville was made professor of drawing at the University of Basel in 1816, after many years of travel. From 1805 to 1807 he worked in Rome under the influence of Koch, and from there he travelled to Russia: making sketches in the Crimea and Caucasus which he worked up into paintings on his return to Switzerland.