Art, literature & history
Dawn—Hunter with Dog
1882
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- watercolor
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.6 x 53.5 cm (14 13/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2008.391
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Henri-Joseph Harpignies. Dawn—Hunter with Dog. The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Dawn—Hunter with Dog — Henri-Joseph Harpignies. 1882.
Medium: watercolor. Dimensions: Sheet: 37.6 x 53.5 cm (14 13/16 x 21 1/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Created at the height of Henri Harpignies's career, this large watercolor landscape features the artist's characteristic gray-green palette. Harpignies developed the composition using overlapping planes unified by a meandering stream or road. It is impossible to identify the exact setting of the image, which instead was likely meant as a souvenir of the French countryside Harpignies knew well and represented often.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.