Dated and signed below on the right: 1918 F. Hodler. In autumn 1917, due to a lingering bout of pneumonia, Ferdinand Hodler was forced to abandon his poorly heated studio in the Acacias district of Geneva and work from his apartment on the Quai du Mont-Blanc. Hodler’s inconvenience was art history’s gain: a series of impressive views of Lake Geneva with Mont Blanc, painted from Hodler’s apartment, which have become the painter’s artistic legacy. The work to be auctioned is one of this series of eighteen paintings, which were created up until his death in May 1918. Thanks to the catalogue of the retrospective exhibition at the Galerie Moos in Geneva on 11 May 1918 – which Hodler visited shortly before his death – the painting can be dated to March of that year.