Moonlit Landscape
Henri-Joseph Harpignies
1900–1910
Medium
Charcoal on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
8 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (22.3 x 29.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.645
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MoonLandscapesTrees
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...