Nº 49
Reading edition
Henri Harpignies FRENCH: 1819-
A SUMMER DAY
Height, 15 inches; length, 22 inches
From the right foreground a deep, placid stream leads diagonally to the left between low grass-covered meadows, and disappears in the middle distance. Overhanging the water, in the left foreground, are two sturdy old trees, one of them with lopped branches, the other with a tall columnar trunk, rising out of the picture. In the shadow, underneath the nearer tree, is seated a young lady reading a book and evidently enjoying the cool shade. Beyond, in the middle distance, is a succession of cultivated fields divided by hedges, with a single farm building, and here and there isolated trees. A range of low wooded hills forms the horizon line against a simple luminous sky.
Signed at the lower right, h’hARPIGNIES, ’90.
From Arnold & Tripp, Paris.
Collection of A. Blumenstiel, New York, 1906.