Evening Light on a Wooded Lakeside with Cattle Drinking
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.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner
Accession Number
2006.89.1
About the Artist
Henri-Joseph Harpignies · 1819–1916
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (1819–1916) was a French landscape painter and watercolorist of extraordinary longevity whose career spanned nearly the entire history of nineteenth-century French art. Born in Valenciennes in northern France, he came to painting relatively late, beginning serious study only in his late twenties under Jean-Alexis Achard, a landscape painter working in the naturalist traditi...