Artist | Auguste Louis Lepère, French, Paris 1849–Domme, Dordogne 1918 |
Title, Date | Landscape near Barbizon, c. 1880 |
Medium | Watercolor, gouache, charcoal, graphite, and black ink with gum glazing on cream laid paper |
Dimensions | 7 × 11 in. (17.8 × 27.9 cm) |
Inscriptions + Marks | Lower 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) |
References | Lisa 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 Line | Promised gift of Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg, Minneapolis |