Travelers on a Wooded Path with a Border of Whimsical Figures and Monkeys
Medium
watercolor and black ink over black chalk on wove paper, with gold paper border and graphite framing lines
Dimensions
sheet (inverted fan shape): 24.9 x 34.2 cm (9 13/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Accession Number
2009.70.135
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...