Gabriel Lory the Elder, In the Lauterbrunnen Valley View from Wengen to the imposing silhouette of the Jungfrau, with 4158 m the third highest mountain of the Bernese Alps, in the northern area of the Aar massif, which overlooks on the horizon the idyllic Lauterbrunnen valley in the Bernese Oberland in the Swiss Alps, on this Fabian Perren notes "... Gabriel Lory knew exactly about the concerns of prospect painting, a synthesis of objective documentation and pictorial composition. Painterly for him meant expressive, meant variation of light and shadow play and emphasis of characteristic aspects, which are able to touch the mind in a special way. ...", fine mixed media (watercolor, pencil, ink), signed and dated lower right in the image "G. Lory 1814", titled in French below the image "Vue de la yungfraie prise de la vallée de Lauterbrune [View of the Virgin from the Lauterbrunnen Valley]", faded, browned and somewhat stained, framed behind glass and mount, mount cutout approx. 22,5 x 29,5 cm. Artist info: actually Gabriel Ludwig Lori, called Lory père [father], Swiss landscape painter, watercolorist, draftsman, etcher and editor (1763 Bern to 1840 ibid), trained as a painter as a colorist of etchings under Johann Ludwig Aberli, Caspar Wolf, Sigmund Freudenberger, Balthasar Anton Dunker and Heinrich Rieter, trained further in Geneva with Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe and Jean-François Albanis de Beaumont, later worked for the publisher Bartholomäus Fehr in St. Gallen. Gallen, 1784 active as colorist of landscape etchings in Bern, after Aberli's death in 1786 continuation of his publishing work by Lory, from 1787 with Simon Daniel Lafond publication of art sheets of the Bernese Oberland, the Canton of Bern, Central Switzerland and Italian Switzerland, associated with Joseph Anton Koch, maintained a large workshop with numerous artists, including his nephew Friedrich Wilhelm Moritz and his son Mathias Gabriel Lory, 1797 moved with his son to Herisau, 1797 again collaborated with Karl Ludwig Zehender and Simon Daniel Lafond, 1801 returned to Bern, 1805 with his son appointed by publisher Jean-Frédéric d'Ostervald to Neuchâtel [Neuchâtel], 1812 returned to Bern and co-founded the Bernese Society of Artists, 1812-30 collaborated on the Swiss almanac "Alpenrosen", 1818 member of the academic art committee, Source: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon" and Wikipedia.