Cleveland Museum of Art
Dawn—Hunter with Dog
Henri Joseph HarpigniesLinkedCulture matchlcp-4164eb638c32
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- watercolor
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 166678
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Created at the height of Henri Harpignies's career, this large watercolor landscape features the artist's characteristic gray-green palette. Harpignies developed the composition using overlapping planes unified by a meandering stream or road. It is impossible to identify the exact setting of the image, which instead was likely meant as a souvenir of the French countryside Harpignies knew well and represented often. The figure seen in this drawing was typical of Henri Harpignies's watercolors, which often featured hunters, fishermen, hikers, and sometimes artists.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Provenance
- ?-before 1973: (Frost and Reed Ltd., London) | 1973: (Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York, June 14, 1973, no. 422, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH) | 1973-2008: Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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