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accession number:	2009.132
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.132
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Landscape with Farmhouse, 1892. Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819–1916). Watercolor with graphite underdrawing; sheet: 12 x 16.9 cm (4 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2009.132

title:				Landscape with Farmhouse
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creation date:			1892
creation date earliest:		1892
creation date latest:		1892
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	watercolor with graphite underdrawing
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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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.
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measurements: Sheet: 12 x 16.9 cm (4 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
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	description:	cream wove paper
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	inscription:	Inscribed, lower left in brown ink: "Harpignies"
Indecipherable inscription, lower right in brown ink
Inscribed in brown ink (verso): "Janvier 1892 / Harpignies"

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Estate of Muriel Butkin
	date: 2008    
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	Schaeffer Galleries, 983 Park Ave., New York; Estate of Muriel Butkin.
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