This albumen print by Gabriel Loppé (1825–1913) shows a man on a frozen river walk near Zermatt (ref. 19).

Better known as a painter, Loppé was also an accomplished mountaineer and photographer, and his photographic work documents the Alpine landscape and mountaineering culture he painted throughout his career from a different, more immediate perspective. As one of the most celebrated peintres-alpinistes of the nineteenth century, Loppé's photographs offer a rare complementary record to his better-known oil paintings of the same subjects and locations.

Collectors of Gabriel Loppé's work in any medium, and of early Alpine mountaineering photography, will find this a distinctive addition connecting his painted and photographic practice.