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Henri Joseph Harpignies, artist
French, 1819 - 1916
Landscape with an Artist Sketching, 1885
watercolor over graphite on heavy wove paper
28 x 39.5 cm (sheet)
Museum purchase, William H. Noble Bequest Fund 1979.2.4
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Although Harpignies was already twenty-seven years old when he began to study painting with Jean Achard, he had a long and successful career. Best known for his paintings and watercolors of landscapes, he also made etchings, drypoints, and a small number of lithographs that represented rural subjects. From the mid1860s onward he received numerous medals and honors for his paintings and watercolors of French and Italian scenes, and hiswork is well represented in French and American museums. ~~Harpignies's work always showed a strong affinity with the ideas espoused since the 1830s by the Barbizon school. Both in his palette and treatment of light Harpignies's style owed its greatest debt to the influence of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, whom he greatly admired. In his later years Harpignies was clearly aware of theories given visual form by the impressionists, but he remained an essentially conservative painter who carried on the Barbizon tradition through the end of the nineteenth century.
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Sketching an with Fund Bequest Noble H William purchase Museum Europe France Drawing paper wove heavy graphite over watercolor tree large by dominated landscape seated artist Henri Joseph Harpignies French 6233305137030009 A000343 1979.2.4 AFGA
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