The Met - Terrain Near Mont Blanc - 56" x 42" - Gray

This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. Architect, theorist, and draftsman Viollet-le-Duc spent the last years of his life living in Switzerland, where he worked on the restoration of the Cathedral of Lausanne and on preparing a map of the Mont Blanc massif. The map was published in 1876 with a ��study of its geodesic and geological construction, its transformations, and the old and modern state of its glaciers.�� Although executed in an area outside the focus of the map, this drawing relates to those made for that project, combining the careful, analytical approach to recording the terrain with a more painterly and evocative use of the watercolor medium.