View of Sintra with the Castanheiros hills in the background 1840 Clementine de Brelaz Sintra (Cintra) is a summer resort near Lisbon on the 'Portuguese Riviera' that historically has been frequented by the royal family and the nobility. Much of the architecture is in the neo-Renaissance style built in the nineteenth is from a collection of picturesque views of Sintra by the lithographer and sometime painter Clementine de Brelaz. She was born in Lisbon in 1811, and migrated to Switzerland, as a Protestant convert. According to Carl Brun (Schweizerisches Künstler Lexikon), Brelaz
View of Sintra with the Castanheiros hills in the background 1840 Clementine de Brelaz Sintra (Cintra) is a summer resort near Lisbon on the 'Portuguese Riviera' that historically has been frequented by the royal family and the nobility. Much of the architecture is in the neo-Renaissance style built in the nineteenth is from a collection of picturesque views of Sintra by the lithographer and sometime painter Clementine de Brelaz. She was born in Lisbon in 1811, and migrated to Switzerland, as a Protestant convert. According to Carl Brun (Schweizerisches Künstler Lexikon), Brelaz was taught in Geneva by the Swiss landscape painter Alexandre Calame (1810–64), presumably during the 1830s. The series of plates are from a set of 18 with a title ‘Coquis de Cintra: Dessines d’apres et lithographies par CNE B.’, Lisbon, Litografia de Manuel Luis, View of Sintra with the Castanheiros hills in the background. Clementine de Brelaz (Portuguese, 1811–1892). 1840. Lithograph on chinecollé on a larger support sheet. Prints
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