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Christian von Mechel, 1790-1797
View of the Château de Chillon on Lake Geneva
Engraving
42x56.5cm
Musé Jenisch
Corinne Vioret, 2009
Photograph
72×90cm
The artist's collection
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Albrecht Dürer, 1514
Melencolia I
Engraving on laid paper
240×189mm
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Gustave Courbet, 1819-1877
The woman with the seagull
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Albrecht Dürer, 1514
Melencolia I (detail)
Engraving on laid paper
240x189mm
Albrecht Dürer
Ferdinand Hodler, 1918
Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc early in the morning
Oil on canvas
74.5×150cm
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Jean-Luc Godard, 1990
Nouvelle Vague
Film shot
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Louis Soutter, 1923-1930
The castle of despair Oh Byron!
Nib and Indian ink on a sheet of paper
222x174mm
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William Turner, 1841
Lake Geneva with the Dent d'Oche, from above Lausanne
Graphite and watercolour on paper
235x338mm
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François Bocion, 1873
Rainbow during a storm
Oil on cardboard
21.5x31.5cm
Francis Bocion
Marcel Duchamp, 1947
The green ray
Lost work
Black and white photograph by Denise Bellon
Marcel Duchamp
Gustave Courbet, 1874
Sunset on Lake Geneva
Oil on canvas
54.5x65.4 cm
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Felix Vallotton, 1892
The swans
Engraving on wood on paper
256x327mm
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Felix Vallotton, 1898
Bellerive beach at Ouchy
Oil on canvas
38.5x55cm
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Lake Geneva has inspired writers from Rousseau to Byron and Mary Shelley as well as painters and photographers. An exhibition at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey explores how the lake has become "a mirror of the human soul, an enormous reservoir of melancholia".
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June 29, 2013 - 11:00
(Photos © and text: Musée Jenisch, Vevey)
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