Watering Place, 1913
Woodcut in brown ink on thin Japanese-style paperexpand_more
Bequest of Harry Drakeexpand_more 2013.35.595
Not on Viewexpand_more
Auguste Lepère often traveled to the countryside to find relief from the bustle of Paris. The flat terrain and the distant windmill at the left suggest that we are in Holland. Lepère found inspiration in the Dutch landscape tradition, showing cowherds at work and tall, spindly, light-filled trees.
Details
- Title
- Watering Place
- Artist Life
- Paris 1849–Domme, Dordogne 1918
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2013.35.595
- Provenance
- [Armstrong Fine Art, Chicago, until 2007; sold in April for PTOO, to Drake]; Harry Drake, St. Paul (2007-d. 2012; bequeathed to MIA)
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Texier-Bernier 521 i/ii
- Curator Approved
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