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Mountain Lake with Gulls
From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The painting was probably completed by Arnold Böcklin in early winter 1847 in Geneva, where he lived from September 1847 to early January 1848. During a two-month illness, he was cared for there by the students and friends Paul Bourne and Eugène d'Andiran (also Dandiran). The latter received the painting as a thank-you. A design drawing, on which the seagulls and the front shore are still missing, is kept in the Print Room of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Inv. 1999.8; Holenweg/Zelger 199).
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBergsee mit Möwen. 1847. Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901). Kunstmuseum Basel, Geschenk von Gabrielle d'Andiran und englischen Freunden zur Erinnerung an Jean-Jacques d'Andiran, Professor an der Universität Lausanne. Public domain.
