Rock Cliffs along the Romanche
1858
Artist, French, 1803 - 1869

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 30.3 x 48.4 cm (11 15/16 x 19 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2001.80.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Artist's estate (Lugt 1268). Private collection (sale, Christie's, London, 15 December 2000, no. 203; (Emmanuel Moatti, Inc., New York); purchased 2001 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2001
Master Drawings, 1600-1900, Emmanuel Moatti, New York and Paris, 2001: no. 36.
2004
Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005
2012
Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2012, 42, 158, no. 17 (color). (French title: De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke.)
Inscriptions
by the artist, lower left in graphite: a Sechilienne / route de l'Oisans / Isère
Markings
stamp of the artist's studio (Lugt 1268)
Wikidata ID
Q64619040