Landscape

Henri-Joseph Harpignies

1900 · Watercolor, graphite · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Henri-Joseph Harpignies

Date

1900

Medium

Watercolor, graphite

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of David Gardiner, 1928