Chestnut Trees above a River

c.1900

Auguste Lepère

Associated Names
Auguste Lepère

Artist, French, 1849 - 1918

The image is a landscape portraying a scene filled with lush trees, painted from a slightly elevated viewpoint. The focus is on the dense arrangement of trees forming a canopy. Expressive brushstrokes depict the texture of the foliage with vibrant yellows, soft blues, and rich greens. The ground is green with sunlight filtering through the leaves. The background shows hints of blue, possibly water or sky. The color palette consists of yellows, greens, shadows, and delicate blue highlights.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David and Constance Yates, NY); Helen Porter and James T. Dyke, Little Rock, AK, 2002; gift to the NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac, NGA, 2012, no. 37.

Inscriptions

at lower left, by the artist: A Lepère; illegible inscription at upper left in black chalk:----/violet[?]; verso, annotated at upper left: bois de chataigniers and at lower right, 53 x 38.

Wikidata ID

Q64536945

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