Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador

Name: Cesar A. Villacrès (Ecuador 1880-1941)
Brand: Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador
Price: 5000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 6,250

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GBP 6,000 - GBP 8,000

Closed: 10 Jun 2020

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Cesar A. Villacrès (Ecuador 1880-1941)

Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador

Price Realised GBP 6,250

Closed: 10 Jun 2020

Price Realised GBP 6,250

Closed: 10 Jun 2020

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Cesar A. Villacrès (Ecuador 1880-1941)
Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador
signed and dated 'C. A. Villacrès / Quito 1914.' (lower right)
oil on canvas, unlined
33⁵⁄₈ x 48¹⁄₂ in. (85.4 x 123.2 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The volcano Chimborazo, 93 miles south-southwest of Quito in the Andes, is the highest (at 20,564ft) mountain in Ecuador, and the highest peak near the Equator. It was thought in the 18th and 19th centuries to be the highest mountain on earth. Humboldt, Bonpland and the Ecuadorian Montufar attempted unsuccessfully to summit in 1802 (the mountain and its assailants recorded in Friedrich Weitzsch’s painting of 1810). Whymper, the conqueror of the Matterhorn, made the first successful climb with two Italian guides in 1884. The iconic mountain features on Ecuador’s coat-of-arms and inspired Simon Bolivar’s poem, "Mi delirio sobre el Chimborazo".