Collection
Nicholas Chevalier
(United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand 09 May 1828–15 Mar 1902)
- Title
- Landscape (New Zealand)
- Other titles:
- The Ovens River, Victoria
- Year
- 1868
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour, white gouache, gum, scraping out
- Dimensions
-
24.4 x 35.1cm sheet; 39.1 x 48.2cm sight edge; 44.7 x 53.8 x 2.7cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. corner, brown watercolour "N Chevalier/ 1868".
- Credit
- Gift of Edouard Levi Montefiore 1901
- Accession number
- 6303
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Nicholas Chevalier was born in St Petersburg, the son of a Russian mother and Swiss father. He studied in Lausanne in Switzerland, Munich, London and Rome before arriving in Australia in 1854. Chevalier worked for 'Melbourne Punch', contributed to 'Victoria illustrated', made colour lithographs and exhibited his work, establishing himself as a leading figure in art in Melbourne. He travelled extensively throughout the 1860s, including to New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Japan, China and India before settling in England in 1870. Edouard Levi Montefiore, the donor of this watercolour to the Gallery, was the brother of Eliezier Levi Montefiore, the Gallery's first Director. He lived in Paris.
[Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan and Patricia James, '19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels in the Gallery's collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005]
- Bibliography (4)
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Jean Campbell, Australian watercolour painters: 1780 to the present day, 'The 1850s, 1860s and 1870s', pg. 52-61, Roseville, 1989, 59 (colour illus.).
Simon Gregg, Nicholas Chevalier: Australian odyssey, Sale, 2011, 241. cat.no. 154
Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan and Patricia James, 19th century Australian watercolours, drawing and pastels from the Gallery's collection 2005, Domain, 2005, 60 (colour illus.).
Hendrik Kolenberg, Nineteenth century Australian watercolours from the collection 1991, Sydney, 1991. not paginated, cat.no. 14
- Exhibition history (2)
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Nineteenth century Australian watercolours from the collection (1991), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 1991–07 Jul 1991
19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Apr 2005–24 Jul 2005
