A Valley
Classification
Drawing
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
Accession Number
1931-64-195
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
**A Valley** by Eugène Édouard Soulès (French, 1811–1876) invites visitors into the serene world of a 19th-century landscape drawing, created around 1840. This delicate work, now housed in the Smithsonian American Museum's collection, reflects the artistic curiosity of a French draftsman during a transformative era in European art. Soulès, active in the mid-1800s, contributed to the rich tradition of landscape depiction, a genre that gained prominence amid Romanticism's emphasis on nature's sublime beauty. Classified as a drawing—though its precise medium awaits further research—"A Valley" ex...