Cleveland Museum of Art

Dawn—Hunter with Dog

Henri Joseph Harpignies

Date

1882

Medium

watercolor

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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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