Landscape with Sheep

Jean-Joseph-François Bellel

Associated Names
Jean-Joseph-François Bellel

Artist, French, 1816 - 1898

The image shows a landscape with rolling hills, a sky filled with clouds, and distant cliffs. The painting features trees, foliage, rocky outcrops, and sheep grazing on grass. The color scheme is warm and aged, dominated by sepia tones. Brushstrokes are detailed, creating texture on the trees and other elements in the scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.8 x 18 cm (9 3/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 44.2 x 30.5 cm (17 3/8 x 12 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.128.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1800), undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Amherst, MA; gift to NGA, 2004.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

  • IFF (1800), undescribed

Inscriptions

lower left below image: J. Bellel pinx et lith; blindstamp in center: LES ARTISTES CONTEMPORAIN; lower right bleow image: Imp Lemercier à Paris; by later hand, upper right in graphite: 110

Wikidata ID

Q75427628

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