107. Auguste Louis Lepère, Landscape near Barbizon

ArtistAuguste Louis Lepère, French, Paris 1849–Domme, Dordogne 1918
Title, DateLandscape near Barbizon, c. 1880
MediumWatercolor, gouache, charcoal, graphite, and black ink with gum glazing on cream laid paper
Dimensions7 × 11 in. (17.8 × 27.9 cm)
Inscriptions + MarksLower left in graphite: Près de Barbizon / ALepère | Artist’s mark in red (Lugt 141)
Provenance(Probably old collection Sagot Le Garrec mark); [Galerie Fischer-Kiener, Paris, until 1994; to Weisberg]; Yvonne and Gabriel Weisberg, Minneapolis
Exhibition History"The Quieter Image: 19th Century European Drawings and Watercolors," Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., 1996, no. 32; "Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection," Mia (2008) and Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Ind. (2010)
ReferencesLisa Dickinson Michaux with Gabriel P. Weisberg, "Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection" (exh. cat.), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, 2008), p. 80, fig. 50
Credit LinePromised gift of Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg, Minneapolis