1810-1864 French Alexandre Calame Locations Swiss painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He studied under Francois Diday in Geneva and then travelled to Paris (1837), to the Netherlands and Desseldorf (1838), to Italy (1844) and to London (1850). Despite his frail health he spent each summer painting in the mountains of the Bernese Oberland and central Switzerland, where he produced the drawings and studies from nature that were later used in his studio compositions. A fervent Calvinist, he saw his subjects.  Related Paintings of Alexandre Calame :. | 1810-1864 French Alexandre Calame Locations | The Rhone Valley at Bex with a View to the Lake of Geneva (nn02) | Swiss Landscape | View of Geneva from Petit-Saconnex | THe Lake of Thun |
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