Mediterranean Landscape with a White House

Mediterranean Landscape with a White House by Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix)

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

Tags

Landscapes

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...

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