Henri Harpignies

Henri - Joseph Harpignies , born with Valencian the June 28th 1819 and died with Saint-Private (Yonne) the August 28th 1916, is a painter French landscape designer.

Its life and its work

His/her parents intended it for a career in the businesses, but its determination with becoming an artist was so strong that it surmounted all the obstacles and that it was authorized with old 27 years to enter the workshop of Jean Achard to Paris. It acquired there the bases of a healthy construction of drawing, which is a sign characteristic of its work of landscape designer. After two years near its Master, it left in Italy.

Of return in France in 1850, it was devoted to the painting of children in landscape medium and joined Corot and the École of Barbizon, of which the principles and the methods impregnate to a certain extent its work. It was related to Corot by a frank friendship and the artists left together to Italy in 1860.

On its return in 1861, it obtained its first success with the Salon with its Lisière of wood on the edges Allier . It contributed then regularly to the Living room. In 1886, it accepted its first medal for the Evening in the countryside of Rome , which was acquired later on by the Musée of Luxembourg.

It carried out many its major works with Hérisson in the Bourbonnais, like in the Nivernais and in Auvergne. Among his outstanding tables one can quote:

Evening on the edges of the Loire (1861)
the Corbels (1865)
the Evening (1866)
the Jump-of-Wolf (1873)
the Loire (1882)
Seen of Saint-Private (1883)

It made also decorative works for the Opéra of Paris, of which the panel of the Valley of Égrie, that it exposed to the Living room in 1870. He was also an excellent painter in watercolours.

External bonds

Works of Harpignies on the Basis Mona Lisa
Portrait of Harpignies by Leon Bonnat
Harpignies on Artcyclopedia

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