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Dawn—Hunter with Dog

1882

Henri Joseph Harpignies

(French, 1819–1916)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
watercolor
Support
Beige wove paper, laid down on cardboard
Watermarks
letters (illegible through mount)
Measurements
Sheet: 37.6 x 53.5 cm (14 13/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.391
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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The figure seen in this drawing was typical of Henri Harpignies's watercolors, which often featured hunters, fishermen, hikers, and sometimes artists.

Description

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.
A horizontally oriented watercolor painting depicts a man with a light skin tone, wearing a dark coat and carrying a long gun over his shoulder, and a brown dog walking through muted green brush toward our left. A winding stream flows through the middle ground beneath two tall trees silhouetted against a gray, cloudy sky. A thin band of orange light glows at the horizon, and a signature appears in our bottom left corner.

Dawn—Hunter with Dog

1882

Henri Joseph Harpignies

(French, 1819–1916)
France, 19th century

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