Landscape
Henri-Joseph Harpignies French
Not on view
Late in his career, the landscape painter Harpignies made repeated visits to Menton, a resort town on the French Riviera. This "souvenir from Menton," as inscribed on the reverse, offers only a glimpse of the blue Mediterranean, focusing instead on the play of light across the group of trees. A practitioner of watercolor since the mid-century, the artist used nuanced tonal values to convey a range of effects from the warm light hitting the topmost branches down to the shadowy undergrowth below.
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