Saint Peter's Seen From the Pincio, Rome
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush, gray and blue-gray washes
Dimensions
6 5/16 x 14 5/16 in. (16 x 36.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff Gift, 1979
Accession Number
1979.478
Tags
CloudsCitiesRome
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...