Fir Trees in Les Trembleaux, near Marlotte (Sapins aux Trembleaux à Marlotte)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
16 1/4 × 12 5/8 in. (41.3 × 32.1 cm) Framed: 25 5/8 × 22 1/8 in. (65.1 × 56.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.183
Tags
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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...