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- Vasari, Seven Bishop Saints
- Passarotti, Male Nude Study
- Castello, A Decapitation
- Wildens, A Hilly Path
- Florentine School , Floral Ornament
- Procaccini, Head of a Soldier
- French School, Head of Hercules
- Vlieger , Fishermen
- Gargiulo , Elevation of Saints
- Roos, Cattle and Sheep
- Cabel, River Landscape
- d'Onofri , Trees in a Landscape
- German School, The Coronation of the Virgin
- Heemskerck, Peasants Drinking
- Piola, St. Raymond
- Moucheron , Classical Figures in a Grove of Trees
- Chaufourrier, Solfatara
- Lantara , Storm over a Village
- Volaire , Neapolitan Boatman
- Monogramist Vh , Woodland Grove
- Bolognese School, Seated Warrior
- Galliari , Stage Set: Courtyard of a Farm
- Duclaux , Plants Growing in a Field
- Cruikshank , Standing Male
- Altmann , Wine Taster
- Decamps, Trees at the Villa
- Nanteuil , Two Figures
- Bodmer, Partridges
- Harpignies , Trees
- Marsaud, Harlequin
- Dehodencq, Three Sketches
- Delauney, Fruit Tree with Birds
- Dansaert , Brawl in a Tavern
- Chapu, Studies for ’’Une Source’’
- Vannutelli, Two Women Seated in a Church
- Lepère, Studies of Ladies Shopping
- Béjot, Pont de l'Alma
- Henricus, Japonisme
- Vuillard, Mme. Vuillard, Sewing at Her Window
- Couturier, Carnival Scene at Night
- Brockhurst, Chinese Group
- Stankavich, On the Frontier
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29. Henri Harpignies (1819-1916) Trees in a Hilly Landscape |
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Trees in a Hilly Landscape
Black and brown chalk on laid paper, 228 x 295 mm., signed and dated 1909. Provenance: A&T (not in Lugt, but presumably Arnold and Trip, his dealers).
Harpignies is too well known and too widely collected to need much of an introduction. Beginning his professional life as a traveling salesman, he was a late convert to art, not exhibiting his first works until the age of thirty-four. His teacher was Achard, his primary influence Corot (whom he met in 1851), but he developed a distinctive style and charm that led to a long and successful career. The present sheet dates from his ninetieth year and the sheer physical command of the medium, not to mention the conveyance of mood and atmosphere, is astonishing.
