LORY (Mathias Gabriel). View of Schalbet's gallery taken from the Italian side. Paris, Didot l'Aîné, 1811. Watercolour aquatint, 19.4 x 28.5 cm, framed (accident to glass). Engraving taken from the album Voyage pittoresque de Genève à Milan par la route du Simplon. Mathias Gabriel Lory (Bern 1784 - 1846) trained mainly with his father, but also benefited from the advice of the landscape painter Maximilien de Meuron in Neuchâtel. He then divided his time between Bern and Neuchâtel, with periods in Berlin (where he taught drawing) and Nice (for health reasons). His style is fairly close to that of his father (sometimes a work cannot be attributed with certainty), but his depiction of landscape is more realistic. He is considered one of the best painters of the Alps, between Maximilien de Meuron and Alexandre Calame. The Lory studio produced a large number of prints that were sold throughout Europe. Also included: - HOSTEIN (Édouard): View of the Bernese Alps near the highest point. Simplon. Genève, Charbulliez et Fick, 1837. Lithographed by Engelmann and watercoloured, 20 x 28 cm, framed. Engraving taken from Souvenirs des travaux du Simplon by Robert Céard (plate no. 5). Soiling. Édouard Hostein (1804-1889) was a French painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He contributed notably to the illustrations in Baron Taylor's Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France. - PLEPP (Joseph): Abbildung des Gletschers im Grindelwald in der Herschaft Bern. Frankfurt, 1654. Copper engraving, 21 x 27 cm, under glass. Extracted from Mérian's Topographia Helvetiae, Rhetiae et Valesiae.