Landscape at Famars
Medium
Watercolor over graphite on beige wove paper
Dimensions
13 1/16 x 9 5/8 in. (33.2 x 24.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.641
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Art Historical Context
Henri-Joseph Harpignies *Landscape at Famars*1863) captures the serene beauty of the French countryside in a delicate watercolor over graphite on beige wove. Measuring 13 1/16 x 9 5/8 inches, this drawing from the Robert Lehman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the artist's mastery of landscape depiction during the mid-19th. Harpignies, a prominent French painter influenced by the Barbizon school, favored watercolors for their luminous transparency, allowing subtle gradations of light and atmosphere to evoke nature's poetic tranquility. The technique of layering watercolor over a graphite und...
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...