Bouquet d'arbres au ruisseau (Stand of Trees on a River)
Medium
etching on oatmeal paper
Dimensions
plate: 10.5 x 17.9 cm (4 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 15.3 x 25.2 cm (6 x 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1984.19.1
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...