A Waterfall of Permanently Frozen Ice in Rosenlaui (Switzerland) (study)

1862. Oil on canvas.
Room 062B

When Rico went to the Swiss Alps in the summer of 1862, the grandeur of the natural world of the high mountains and the company of the Swiss painter Alexander Calame, who had worked in the area, stimulated him to depict this subject. He used this study of a detail to execute a composition now only known from the wood engraving reproduced here.

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A Waterfall of Permanently Frozen Ice in Rosenlaui (Switzerland) (study)

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Inventory number: P008469
Author: Martín Rico y Ortega
Title: A Waterfall of Permanently Frozen Ice in Rosenlaui (Switzerland) (study)
Date: 1862
Technique: Oil
Support: Canvas
Dimension: Height: 27 cm; Width: 32 cm
Provenance: The work, which the artist retained in his possession throughout his lifetime, passed to his heirs; Michel Rico, great-grandson of the artist, 2024; donated by the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, Nineteenth-Century Committee, 2024
Entry date: 2024

Bibliography +

Barón, Javier, El paisajista Martín Rico (1833-1908), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2012, pp. 58, 61, fig. 42.

Barón, Javier (ed.), Impressions of Europe. Nineteenth-Century Vistas by Martín Rico, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2013, pp. 60, 63, fig. 42.

Barón, Javier, 'Martín Rico y Ortega. Una cascada de hielos eternos en Rosenlaui', Museo Nacional del Prado. Memoria de actividades 2024, Madrid, 2025, pp. 130-131.