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Head of the Mitta Mitta, eagle’s view of the mountains
Eugen von Guérard, 1811-19011879
State Library Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
This work depicting the head of the Mitta Mitta River near Omeo looks towards Mount Wills, named after the explorer William John Wills of the ill-fated Victorian Exploring Expedition.
For several years, this painting was in the collection of Tristan Buesst, the founder of the Friends of the La Trobe Library and a generous supporter of the Library's collections.
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- Title: Head of the Mitta Mitta, eagle’s view of the mountains
- Creator: Eugen von Guérard, 1811-1901
- Date: 1879
- Location: Mitta Mitta River, Victoria
- Provenance: Gift of Tristan Buesst, 1967.
- Rights: This work is out of copyright. No copyright restrictions apply.
- lithograph: Painting
- View more information about this image in the State Library Victoria catalogue: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:SLV_VOYAGER1698488
- View a full-size version of this image: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/279606
- Physical dimensions: 35.2 x 50.8 cm., in frame 54.6 x 70.2 x 7.0 cm.
- Medium: Oil on millboard
- A.E. Ferris: Considered one of the most important landscape painters of the 19th century, Eugen von Guérard sought to express the awe-inspiring beauty of the Australian landscape in the German Romantic tradition. While James Smith, art critic for 'The Argus', often criticised what he saw as the artist's laboured technique, von Guérard's contemporaries praised him for not only executing faithful botanical and geological studies, but creating works of art.
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