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Henri Joseph Harpignies, artist
French, 1819 - 1916
Banks of the Allier (Borde dell Allier), 1903
oil on canvas
27 3/4 x 39 3/4 (70.5 x 101 cm)
Mildred Anna Williams Collection 1943.7
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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dell Borde Allier the of Banks Williams Anna Mildred Europe France Painting canvas oil Henri Joseph Harpignies French 6248305223730082 A303686 1943.7 EPTG
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