Landscape with a Distant Town (recto); Study of Trees around a Pond (verso)

Henri-Joseph Harpignies French

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According to a faint inscription on the reverse, this drawing was made in and around the small village of Montmorency, north of Paris. A number of painters favored the cool forests and valleys near the château de Montmorency in the 1850s and 1860s.

Landscape with a Distant Town (recto); Study of Trees around a Pond (verso), Henri-Joseph Harpignies (French, Valenciennes 1819–1916 Saint-Privé), watercolor over graphite on off-white heavy Bristol-board (recto); charcoal or black chalk (verso)

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Landscape with a Distant Town (recto); Study of Trees around a Pond (verso), Henri-Joseph Harpignies (French, Valenciennes 1819–1916 Saint-Privé), watercolor over graphite on off-white heavy Bristol-board (recto); charcoal or black chalk (verso)
Landscape with a Distant Town (recto); Study of Trees around a Pond (verso), Henri-Joseph Harpignies (French, Valenciennes 1819–1916 Saint-Privé), watercolor over graphite on off-white heavy Bristol-board (recto); charcoal or black chalk (verso)
Landscape with a Distant Town (recto); Study of Trees around a Pond (verso), Henri-Joseph Harpignies (French, Valenciennes 1819–1916 Saint-Privé), watercolor over graphite on off-white heavy Bristol-board (recto); charcoal or black chalk (verso)

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