Nº 47
Reading edition
Henri Harpignies FRENCH: 1819-
THE BIRCHES
Height, 19 inches; width, 16 inches
A clump of graceful, slender white birches grow on a grassy bank near a narrow path in a broken park-like country, where open glades alternate with huge trees in heavy foliage. On the right great beeches rise out of the picture and are in contrast against a quiet, cloudy summer sky. The foreground is in modified shadow, and the sunlight falls upon the middle distance, glinting on the silvery stems of the trees and accentuating the broad masses of the foliage and the grass.
Signed at the lower left, h’hARPIGNIES, 1863.
From Arnold & Tripp, Paris.