FDA-D.1706-2023
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.1706-2023
Object type
Identification
Title
Valley, Moors with Heather
Title Type
Common name
Description
Painted landscape view of a yellow hillside with vegetation, blue hills in the background
Comments
Most of Donnay’s landscape views were painted in the Ourthe
Valley in Belgium, close to his home in the village of Méry. After
the artist’s suicide in 1921, a bas relief memorial portrait by Belgian sculptor Georges Petit (1879–1958) was positioned on
the crest of a hillside in the valley. Lettering below the portrait translates as ‘before these horizons Auguste Donnay, painter and poet, heard the soul of his country sing’.
Valley in Belgium, close to his home in the village of Méry. After
the artist’s suicide in 1921, a bas relief memorial portrait by Belgian sculptor Georges Petit (1879–1958) was positioned on
the crest of a hillside in the valley. Lettering below the portrait translates as ‘before these horizons Auguste Donnay, painter and poet, heard the soul of his country sing’.
Other number
FDA-P.600-2023
Description
Dimensions
height (frame): 627mm
width (frame): 880mm
width (frame): 42mm
width (frame): 880mm
width (frame): 42mm
Materials & techniques note
Gouache on board
Production
Person
Donnay, Auguste, 1862 - 1921 (Artist)
Technique
painted
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Richard Henry Allen Amis (K.S. 1945-50; 1932-2018); by whom bequeathed to Eton College
