Unspunnenfest
Item
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Title
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Unspunnenfest
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Rights
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Gottfried Keller Foundation, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Bern License: Public Domain.
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Creator
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
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Date
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1808-1809
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Description
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After Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun fled France, she began to travel in Europe. During 1807-1808, she ended up in Switzerland, where she started to create more landscapes.
The landscape depicts a Swedish festival that celebrates folklore and customs, called the Swiss Shepherds Festival, taking place in Unspunnen. In the panoramic painting, Elisabeth depicts stone throwing, alphorn concerts, and folk dances. Elisabeth pulls imagery from life and also borrows from the Bernese genre painter Franz Niklaus König.
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Format
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Painting. Oil on canvas. 84 x 114 cm.
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Publisher
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Gottfried Keller Foundation, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Berne
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Contributor
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Madalyn Wnenta
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Identifier
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Gottfried Keller Foundation, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Berne. GKS483
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Subject
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Festival; Switzerland; 1800s; 19th century; shepards; landscape; Swiss; folklore; dancing; customs
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Source
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Jpeg file. Unknown photographer. Gottfried Keller Foundation, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Berne. 10/30/25.
https://www.bundessammlungen.ch/en/collection/item/18116/.
Unspunnenfest