Henri Harpignies
Illustration — Henri Harpignies • Illustration — Henri Harpignies • Illustration — Landscape by Harpignies at Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil • Illustration — Portrait of Harpignies by Léon Bonnat Henri-Joseph Harpignies (June 28, 1819 – August 28, 1916) was a French landscape painter of the Barbizon school. Though his main exhibited works were oil paintings, by French standards he took watercolour painting unusually seriously, and was also a printmaker.
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Henri Harpignies

Pierre Petit · 500 Célébrités contemporaines, published by Félix Potin, Paris, 1908. Imagivore · Public domain
- Born
- 1819
- Died
- 1916
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · visual artist
- Fields
- landscape painting
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Illustration — Henri Harpignies • Illustration — Henri Harpignies • Illustration — Landscape by Harpignies at Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil • Illustration — Portrait of Harpignies by Léon Bonnat Henri-Joseph Harpignies (June 28, 1819 – August 28, 1916) was a French landscape painter of the Barbizon school. Though his main exhibited works were oil paintings, by French standards he took watercolour painting unusually seriously, and was also a printmaker.
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He was born at Valenciennes. His parents intended for him to pursue a business career, but his determination to become an artist was so strong that it conquered all obstacles, and he was allowed at the age of twenty-seven to enter Jean Achard's atelier in Paris. From this painter he acquired a groundwork of sound constructive draughtsmanship, which is so marked a feature of his landscape painting. After two years under this exacting teacher he went to Italy, whence he returned in 1850. During the next few years he devoted himself to the painting of children in landscape setting, and fell in with Corot and the other Barbizon masters, whose principles and methods are to a certain extent reflected in his own personal art. To Corot he was united by a bond of warm friendship, and the two artists went together to Italy in 1860. On his return, he scored his first great success at the Salon, in 1861, with his Lisière de bois sur les bords de l'Allier. After that year he was a regular exhibitor at the old Salon; in 1886 he received his first medal for Le Soir dans la campagne de Rome, which was acquired for the Luxembourg Gallery. Many of his best works were painted at Hérisson in the central France region of Bourbonnais, as well as in the Nivernais and Auvergne regions. Among his chief pictures are: • Soir sur les bords de la Loire (1861) • Les Corbeaux (1865) • Le Soir (1866) • Le Saut-du-Loup (1873) • La Loire (1882) • Vue de Saint-Privé (1883). He also did some decorative work for the Paris Opéra—the Vallée d'Egérie panel, which he showed at the Salon of 1870. He had numerous students, among them Émile Appay (1876–1935), James Wilson Morrice (1865–1924), Jeanne Rongier, Jane Le Soudier (1885–1976), Louis-Alexandre Cabié, Pierre Vignal, Raymond Verdun, and Émile Dardoize (1826–1901). As well as French museums, his works are found in many British and American collections.
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Henri Harpignies was recorded at birth as Henri-Joseph Harpignies. The authorities additionally record the headings Henri-Joseph Harpignies, Henri Joseph Harpignies, Henry Joseph Harpignies, h.j. harpignies and h. harpignies. His recorded language was French. He married Madame Harpignies.

French painter Henri Harpignies (1819-1916)
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1819
Henri Harpignies born at Valenciennes.
1916
Henri Harpignies died at Saint-Privé.
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- 1.Née Adèle Lequime.
- 2.Avec Jean Achard (1807-1884), Henry Axenfeld (1824-1892), Stéphane Baron (1827-1921), Gustave Doré (1832-1883), Augustin Feyen-Perrin (1826-1888), Hippolyte Fauvel (1835-1895), Léon-Charles Flahaut (1831-1920), Louis Français(1814-1897), Jean-Baptiste Georges Gassies (1819-1883), Edmond-Georges Guet (1829-1865), Jean-Louis Hamon (1821-1874) et Émile Vernier (1829-1887).
- 3.Notice de l'œuvre sur le site du musée d'Orsay.
- 4.Conservé au musée du château des ducs de Bourbon à Montluçon.
- 5.« Portrait d'Henri Harpignies (1819-1916), peintre », notice sur art.rmngp.fr.
- 6.« Portrait d'Henri Harpignies », notice sur parismuseescollections.paris.fr.
- 7.source insuffisante Archives de la ville de Fontenay-aux-Roses.
- 8.Dictionnaire de la peinture. Larousse. 2003.
- 9.Guide des tombes d'hommes célèbres. Le Cherche midi. 2011. 978-2-7491-2169-7.
- 10.Paysage de montagne Collection Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. collections.mnbaq.org.
- 11.Base Joconde 000PE024495 Chasse à courre .
- 12.Vue à Moncel. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.
- 13.Catalogue de la Exposition d'Amiens de 1885 organisée par les Amis des Arts de la Somme, p.22.
- 14.Laurier Lacroix, « Suzor-Coté, Marc-Aurèle de Foy », in Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, vol. 16, Université Laval/University of Toronto, 2003 (en ligne, consulté le ).
- 15.Nicole Cloutier, « Morrice, James Wilson », in Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, vol. 16, Université Laval/University of Toronto, 2003 (en ligne, consulté le ).
- 16.Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets. Gallica. 4731. 1901-07-27.
- 17.Victor Segoffin. Henri Harpignies. Images d'art. RMN-Grand Palais.
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- Société des artistes français, Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture…, Salon de 1897.
- Henri Harpignies 1819 1916. Peindre la nature, [catalogue d'exposition], Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, Musée de la Loire, 2016, 51 p.
- Elric (dessin) et François Darnaudet (scénario), Harpignies, Paquet, 2014.
- Jean-Louis Balleret, De Corot à Balthus : Un siècle de grands peintres dans la Nièvre et le Morvan, préface de Jacques Thuillier, Paris, Éditions Cercle d’art, 1997, 168 p. . Une réflexion sur la géographie et l'histoire de l'art, illustrée par l’œuvre paysagiste de six peintres : Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Henri Harpignies, André Lhote, Johan-Barthold Jongkind, Balthus et Rosa Bonheur.
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He trained under Jean Achard. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
Henri Harpignies received Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Recorded as painter, printmaker and visual artist.
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