Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011213Dawn—Hunter with Dog
About the Artwork
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.
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.
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
Exhibition history
French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819–1916)
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- watercolor
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.6 x 53.5 cm (14 13/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2008.391
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