An Alpine Valley with Trees and Boulders

1876

Gustave Doré

Artist, French, 1832 - 1883

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, gouache and black chalk, with pen and black ink, over traces of graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

  • Dimensions

    overall: 45.1 x 31.7 cm (17 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.144.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's East, New York, 2 November 1999, no. 55); private English collection; (Jill Newhouse, New York); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1885

  • Gustave Doré, Salons du Cercle de la Librarie, Paris, 1885, no. 178 or 167?

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, 65, 159, no. 32 (color). (French title: De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke.)

Inscriptions

lower right in watercolor: GDoré / 1876

Wikidata ID

Q64572797

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