Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes

French, 1750 - 1819

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French painter (1750-1819)

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Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, A Stand of Trees, 1797/1798, black chalk on laid paper, laid down on old album sheet, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2018.161.1

A Stand of Trees

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes · 1797/1798 · black chalk on laid paper, laid down on old album sheet ·  Accession ID  2018.161.1

A sliver of land across the bottom of this composition gives way to a procession of puffy gray and white clouds sweeping up across a vivid blue, panoramic sky in this horizontal landscape painting. An area of darker gray beyond the brown land could be a valley, mountain, or shadows from the billowing clouds. About one-fifth of the way up the composition, the horizon glows the faintest peach. The clouds trundle from our left up and to our right. The view is loosely painted, especially in the land.
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Study of Clouds over the Roman Campagna, c. 1782/1785, oil on paper on cardboard, Given in honor of Gaillard F. Ravenel II by his friends, 1997.23.1

Study of Clouds over the Roman Campagna

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes · c. 1782/1785 · oil on paper on cardboard ·  Accession ID  1997.23.1

Bibliography

1956

  • Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1750–1819. Exh. cat. Musée Paul-Dupuy, Toulouse, 1956.

1976

  • Lacambre, Geneviève. Les paysages de Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1750–1819. Paris, 1976.

1980

  • Bailly-Herzberg, Janine. Correspondence de Camille Pissarro. 5 vols. Paris, 1980: 1:260.

1996

  • Conisbee, Philip. “The Early History of Open-Air Painting.” In In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 1996-1997: 46.

2003

  • Bordes, Philippe. "Review of Pierre Henri de Valenciennes. (Exh. Musée Paul-Dupuy, Toulouse.)" The Burlington Magazine 145 (Aug. 2003): 601–603.

  • Penent, Jean, et al. “La nature l’avait créé peintre”: Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1750–1819. Exh. cat. Musée Paul-Dupuy, Toulouse, 2003.

2009

  • Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: 409-410.