A Potted Fuchsia with Children's Toys

1877

Henri-Joseph Harpignies

Associated Names
Henri-Joseph Harpignies

Artist, French, 1819 - 1916

The image shows a potted plant with white and pink flowers on a wooden table. The colors include dark green leaves, pink and white flowers, a gray pot, and brown tones from the table and background. In the foreground, there is a blue cloth and some loose petals on the table's edge. Additionally, a ball and two shuttlecocks are visible on the left side of the table.

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection; (Stoppenbach & Delestre Ltd., London); Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2010; NGA purchase in 2013.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, 2012, 52-53, 64, 159, no. 31 (color).

2013

  • Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013, 52-53, 64, 159, no. 31 (color)(cat. published in 2012).

Inscriptions

signed and dated in brush and white watercolor at lower left: h'harpignies 77; dedicated by the artist in pen and brown ink at lower right: à ma chère belle soeur.

Wikidata ID

Q64573686

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