Alpine Sunset
- Title
- Alpine Sunset
- Actual Title
- View from Mont Blanc Summit, Sunrise
- Artist
- Loppé
- Artist Full Name
- Gabriel Loppé (1825-1913)
- Date (Painted or Exhibited)
- 1869
- Type
- oil on canvas
- Size (HxW mm)
- 710 x 1080
- Current Location
- The Alpine Club Collection, London: HA006P
- Lent By
- Leslie Stephen, Esq
- Catalog Number
- 156
- Catalog Page
- 20
- Curators Notes
- The painting is, in all likelihood, the one shown in the 1884 exhibition--albeit with a generic title. The same title is given for 155 and 156.
- Alt-Text
- Two mountaineers ascend a snowy, sunlit slope toward rugged, jagged peaks under an orange-pink sky at sunrise or sunset, with vast mountain ranges fading into mist in the distance.