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The image shows a dense, wooded area with a castle on a hill in the distance. The horizon is low, with the castle towers marking it. The painting has textured brushstrokes depicting trees and rocks. The color palette is mostly sepia tones, with shades of brown and hints of gray. Tall trees frame the scene, and a mountain range rises behind the castle in the misty sky.
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The image shows a dense, wooded area with a castle on a hill in the distance. The horizon is low, with the castle towers marking it. The painting has textured brushstrokes depicting trees and rocks. The color palette is mostly sepia tones, with shades of brown and hints of gray. Tall trees frame the scene, and a mountain range rises behind the castle in the misty sky.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

Alpine Castle above a Wooded Lake

Maxime Lalanne

Date
c. 1870
Medium
charcoal with stumping,scraping, erasing and wetting, and white chalk on beige laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
framed: 93.35 × 127 × 5.72 cm (36 3/4 × 50 × 2 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2006.153.1
Credit line
Helen Porter and James T. Dyke Fund
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • Castle
  • Tree
  • Lake
  • Nature
Provenance

(John Mitchell and Son, London); NGA purchase in 2006.

Inscription

lower left in black ink: Maxime Lalanne

NGA object ID 135628. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.