Landscape with a Distant Town (recto); Study of Trees around a Pond (verso)
ca. 1865
Medium
watercolor over graphite on off-white heavy Bristol-board (recto); charcoal or black chalk (verso)
Dimensions
9 5/8 x 15 1/16 in. (24.4 x 38.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.642
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...