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Henri-Joseph Harpignies

Evening Light on a Wooded Lakeside with Cattle Drinking, 1882

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Medium

watercolor with touches of white gouache over traces of charcoal on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 36.8 x 53.2 cm (14 1/2 x 20 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.89.1

Artists / Makers

Henri-Joseph Harpignies (artist) French, 1819 - 1916

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in watercolor: lHarpignes 1882

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 121.

2012: Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 23.

2014: The Color of Nature: Recent Acquisitions of Landscape Watercolors, NGA, 2014.

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