Old Master & British Works on Paper

Gabriel Lory the Younger

The Reichenbach Falls at Meiringen, in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

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Gabriel Lory the Younger

Bern 1784 - 1846

The Reichenbach Falls at Meiringen, in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

Black chalk and watercolour;

signed in pen and black ink, lower left: Lory and bears numbering, inscription and attribution on the backing sheet: 679. (in pen and black ink, upper centre), george Lory / né en 1804 (in pen and black ink, lower centre) and bears location in black chalk, lower left: Vue de Reichenbach Meiringen / Berner Oberland

unframed: 425 by 340 mm

framed: 725 by 590 mm

The Swiss views - paintings, watercolours and prints - that the Bern artist Gabriel Lory, and his father of the same name, produced in the early decades of the 19th century enjoyed great popularity throughout Europe.

The Reichenbach Falls at Meiningen, in the Bernese Oberland, are perhaps best known today for literary reasons, as the location where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero, Sherlock Holmes, fights to the death with Professor Moriarty, at the end of The Final Problem, first published in 1893. As is, however, clear from this watercolour, this dramatic and picturesque location was already seen as a significant landmark many years earlier.