Landscape with a Distant Town (recto); Study of Trees around a Pond (verso)
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Landscape with a Distant Town (recto); Study of Trees around a Pond (verso)
- Artist: Henri-Joseph Harpignies (French, Valenciennes 1819–1916 Saint-Privé)
- Date: ca. 1865
- Medium: watercolor over graphite on off-white heavy Bristol-board (recto); charcoal or black chalk (verso)
- Dimensions: 9 5/8 x 15 1/16 in. (24.4 x 38.3 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
- Object Number: 1975.1.642
- Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection
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