Landscape with a Distant Town (recto); Study of Trees around a Pond (verso)

Henri-Joseph Harpignies

ca. 1865 · watercolor over graphite on off-white heavy Bristol-board (recto); charcoal or black chalk (verso) · Robert Lehman Collection

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.

Artist

Henri-Joseph Harpignies

Date

ca. 1865

Medium

watercolor over graphite on off-white heavy Bristol-board (recto); charcoal or black chalk (verso)

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975