Signed, this watercolour by Jacques Fourcy (1906–1990) shows the Breithorn and Klein Matterhorn seen from Tufternalp, above Zermatt.

Fourcy was among the twentieth-century painters who continued the long tradition of Alpine landscape watercolour established by nineteenth-century predecessors such as Gabriel Loppé and Alexandre Calame. This view captures the classic panorama of snow-capped peaks visible from the well-trodden trails above Zermatt, a vantage point that has drawn painters, photographers and mountaineers to the region for well over a century.

Watercolours of the Breithorn and the Klein Matterhorn – two of the most recognisable summits in the Pennine Alps – are prized by collectors of twentieth-century Swiss Alpine art and Zermatt mountain views alike, offering a more intimate, immediate counterpart to the grander oil compositions produced by earlier generations of peintres-alpinistes.