Alpine Castle above a Wooded Lake

c. 1870

Maxime Lalanne

Associated Names
Maxime Lalanne

Artist, French, 1827 - 1886

The image shows a dense, wooded area with a castle on a hill in the distance. The horizon is low, with the castle towers marking it. The painting has textured brushstrokes depicting trees and rocks. The color palette is mostly sepia tones, with shades of brown and hints of gray. Tall trees frame the scene, and a mountain range rises behind the castle in the misty sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal with stumping,scraping, erasing and wetting, and white chalk on beige laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Helen Porter and James T. Dyke Fund

  • Dimensions

    framed: 93.35 × 127 × 5.72 cm (36 3/4 × 50 × 2 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.153.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(John Mitchell and Son, London); NGA purchase in 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 126.

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, 44, 159, no. 19 (color). (French title: De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke.)

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink: Maxime Lalanne

Wikidata ID

Q64614266

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