Landscape
Medium
Watercolor, graphite
Dimensions
Overall: 11 1/16 x 7 13/16in. (28.1 x 19.8cm) frame: 21 x 16 in. (53.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of David Gardiner, 1928
Accession Number
28.127.2
Tags
LandscapesTrees
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...