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This image depicts a landscape scene created using a stippling technique. The horizon is positioned at the center, featuring distant spires and rooftops of a village. Rolling hills, shrubs, and a body of water are depicted in varying densities of dots. The sky is filled with scattered dots resembling clouds. The composition is rendered in monochrome black ink on a white background.
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This image depicts a landscape scene created using a stippling technique. The horizon is positioned at the center, featuring distant spires and rooftops of a village. Rolling hills, shrubs, and a body of water are depicted in varying densities of dots. The sky is filled with scattered dots resembling clouds. The composition is rendered in monochrome black ink on a white background.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A River Landscape

Albert Dubois-Pillet

Date
c.1888
Medium
pen and black ink
Dimensions
overall: 29 x 39 cm (11 7/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2013.100.1
Credit line
Purchased as a Gift in Memory of Melvin R. Seiden
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • Landscape
  • Tree
  • River
Provenance

(Galerie de la Présidence, Paris); James T. Dyke, Little Rock, AR, 2007; NGA purchase in 2013.

Inscription

By the artist in black ink at l.r.: duBOIS-PillEt

NGA object ID 138600. 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.