Mediterranean Landscape with a White House
Medium
Watercolor over graphite on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
6 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (17.2 x 24.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.591
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Art Historical Context
Nestled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Robert Lehman Collection, *Mediterranean Landscape with White House* (1900–1905) by Henri-Edmond (born Henri-Ed Delacroix) invites visitors into a sunlit corner of southern Europe. This modest drawing, measuring just 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (17.2 x 24.8 cm), depicts a quintessential Mediterranean vista—likely evoking the radiant coasts Provence, where Cross spent his later years. A pivotal Neo-Impressionist, Cross built on the pointillist techniques of his friend Georges Seurat but softened them into luminous, atmospheric effects by the early 1900s. He...