The art of Lake Geneva

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Christian von Mechel, 1790-1797 View of the Château de Chillon on Lake Geneva Engraving 42x56.5cm Musé Jenisch

Corinne Vioret, 2009 Photograph 72×90cm The artist's collection Keystone

Albrecht Dürer, 1514 Melencolia I Engraving on laid paper 240×189mm Keystone

Gustave Courbet, 1819-1877 The woman with the seagull Keystone

Albrecht Dürer, 1514 Melencolia I (detail) Engraving on laid paper 240x189mm Albrecht Dürer

Ferdinand Hodler, 1918 Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc early in the morning Oil on canvas 74.5×150cm Keystone

Jean-Luc Godard, 1990 Nouvelle Vague Film shot Keystone

Louis Soutter, 1923-1930 The castle of despair Oh Byron! Nib and Indian ink on a sheet of paper 222x174mm Keystone

William Turner, 1841 Lake Geneva with the Dent d'Oche, from above Lausanne Graphite and watercolour on paper 235x338mm Keystone

François Bocion, 1873 Rainbow during a storm Oil on cardboard 21.5x31.5cm Francis Bocion

Marcel Duchamp, 1947 The green ray Lost work Black and white photograph by Denise Bellon Marcel Duchamp

Gustave Courbet, 1874 Sunset on Lake Geneva Oil on canvas 54.5x65.4 cm Keystone

Felix Vallotton, 1892 The swans Engraving on wood on paper 256x327mm Keystone

Felix Vallotton, 1898 Bellerive beach at Ouchy Oil on canvas 38.5x55cm Keystone

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Lake Geneva has inspired writers from Rousseau to Byron and Mary Shelley as well as painters and photographers. An exhibition at the Musée Jenisch in Vevey explores how the lake has become "a mirror of the human soul, an enormous reservoir of melancholia".

(Photos © and text: Musée Jenisch, Vevey)