Dawn—Hunter with Dog (1882): Art, History and Details

Dawn—Hunter with Dog (1882) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819–1916).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Dawn—Hunter with Dog
• Date: 1882
• Creator attribution: Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819–1916)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: watercolor
• Dimensions: Sheet: 37.6 x 53.5 cm (14 13/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.391

A detail from the museum

The figure seen in this drawing was typical of Henri Harpignies's watercolors, which often featured hunters, fishermen, hikers, and sometimes artists.

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.