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Dawn—Hunter with Dog
Henri Harpignies1882
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Dawn—Hunter with Dog
- Creator: Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819-1916)
- Date Created: 1882
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 37.6 x 53.5 cm (14 13/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Frost and Reed Ltd., London), (Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York, June 14, 1973, no. 422, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH), Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.391
- Medium: watercolor
- Inscriptions: signed, lower left, in black watercolor: h'harpignies . 82.; verso of secondary support, upper center, in graphite: 722 [circled]; lower left, in graphite: 539 [circled]; lower right, in graphite: Gold Whistler / 539 Anderson; lower right, in graphite: a.21708.
- Fun Fact: The figure seen in this drawing was typical of Henri Harpignies's watercolors, which often featured hunters, fishermen, hikers, and sometimes artists.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Collection: Drawings
- Accession Number: 2008.391
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