Alpine Herders's guest appearances

Alpine Herders

Museum of Fine Arts Bern

Piet Mondrian

Henri Matisse

Joan Miró

Marc Chagall

Sean Scully

Edouard Manet

Chaim Soutine

Alberto Giacometti

Hans Arp

Paul Klee

Wassily Kandinsky

Paul Cézanne

Mark Rothko

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Pierre Bonnard

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Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun

This painting depicts the second Unspunnen Festival, which took place on 17. August 1808. The Artist attended the Festival in the Bernese Oberland in company with Madame de Stael who is standing arm in arm with an elegantly dressed gentleman in the centre of the picture. Can you find the artist herself in the painting ? From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842), Celebration of Alpine Herders in Unspunnen on August 17, 1808; 1808/1809