A Corner of a Studio
Henri-Joseph Harpignies
1801 to 1825
Medium
watercolor on wove paper, laid down on cardboard
Dimensions
sheet: 24.8 x 34.6 cm (9 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David E. Rust
Accession Number
2009.126.1
About the Artist
Henri-Joseph Harpignies · 1819–1916
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (1819–1916) was a French landscape painter and watercolorist of extraordinary longevity whose career spanned nearly the entire history of nineteenth-century French art. Born in Valenciennes in northern France, he came to painting relatively late, beginning serious study only in his late twenties under Jean-Alexis Achard, a landscape painter working in the naturalist traditi...