id: 124082 accession number: 1944.84 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.84 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:00.167000 The River Loire at Nevers, 1901. Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819–1916). Oil on fabric; framed: 90 x 106 x 9 cm (35 7/16 x 41 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 66 x 81.5 cm (26 x 32 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.84 title: The River Loire at Nevers title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1901 creation date earliest: 1901 creation date latest: 1901 current location: creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819–1916) - artist Born into a bourgeois family of Belgian descent who established a sugar beet factory, Henri Joseph Harpignies became seriously interested in painting during an extended trip through France in 1838. However, he first worked as a sales agent until 1848, when he entered the studio of landscape painter Jean-Alexis Achard (1807-1884). Harpignies traveled to Crémieu and Brussels with Achard but decided to return home upon the outbreak of the revolution of 1848. After the revolution, he traveled through southern Germany and to Italy, where the natural surroundings made a strong impact on his work and where he first became interested in watercolor. He was accepted into the Salon of 1853 and exhibited there regularly until 1912. Harpignies was influenced by Corot (q.v.) and the other Barbizon painters and worked in their manner. He traveled throughout France, visiting the forest of Fontainebleau, the Pyrenees, Nevers, and other areas, making landscape studies. He returned to Italy from 1863 through 1865, after his marriage to Marguerite Ventillard. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) he fought with the National Guard at Hérisson, where he would return each summer throughout the 1870s. Harpignies took on his own private pupils, whom he taught his watercolor technique, and his contract with the dealers Arnold & Tripp in 1883 secured his financial independence. During the final decades of his life, he traveled often to La Trémellerie at Saint-Privé and painted along the coast of Nice and Menton. --- measurements: Framed: 90 x 106 x 9 cm (35 7/16 x 41 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 66 x 81.5 cm (26 x 32 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: h.j harpignies. 1901 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. page number: Mentioned: p. 22, cat. no. 6 url: https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n26 Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 352-354, Vol. II, no. 123 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.84/1944.84_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.84/1944.84_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.84/1944.84_full.tif