Le Cap Martin
Medium
Charcoal on laid paper
Dimensions
15 1/4 x 21 1/16 in. (38.7 x 53.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Eric G. Carlson, in honor of Allison L. Reddington, 2003
Accession Number
2003.209
Tags
Landscapes
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...