Nº 33
Reading edition
Henri Harpignies FRENCH: 1819-
A DISTANT VILLAGE
Height, 9½ inches; length, 15 inches
From the left foreground a deep and narrow river leads away, between grassy banks, to the middle distance, where it is crossed by a stone bridge with a single arch. Beyond the bridge, which is flanked on the right by an irregular hedge, and on the left by scattered clumps of trees and bushes, is a vista across a meadow to a distant village, dominated by a church with a lofty spire. The sky is covered with a luminous haze in which sunlit scuds are drifting, and the full light of a midday summer sun falls upon the landscape.
Signed at the lower left, h’hARPIGNIES.