Landscape
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Landscape
- Artist: Henri-Joseph Harpignies (French, Valenciennes 1819–1916 Saint-Privé)
- Date: 1900
- Medium: Watercolor, graphite
- Dimensions: Overall: 11 1/16 x 7 13/16in. (28.1 x 19.8cm)
frame: 21 x 16 in. (53.3 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Bequest of David Gardiner, 1928
- Object Number: 28.127.2
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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