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The image depicts a natural scene with trees and rugged terrain viewed from a slightly elevated angle. The sketch-style drawing features loose brushstrokes and stippling techniques to show texture and movement. The color scheme is monochromatic with dark lines on a light background. The scene includes twisted tree trunks, branches, and rocks in the foreground, with more trees and rocks in the background that fade into lighter ink strokes, suggesting depth and distance.
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The image depicts a natural scene with trees and rugged terrain viewed from a slightly elevated angle. The sketch-style drawing features loose brushstrokes and stippling techniques to show texture and movement. The color scheme is monochromatic with dark lines on a light background. The scene includes twisted tree trunks, branches, and rocks in the foreground, with more trees and rocks in the background that fade into lighter ink strokes, suggesting depth and distance.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Rocky Hillside with Dead and Dying Trees

Adolphe Etienne Viollet-Le-Duc II

Medium
pen and brown ink with graphite on tan wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 27.5 x 20.6 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2009.70.245
Credit line
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Time span
1801 to 1825
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • plant
  • Death
  • Tree
  • Rock
  • Wood
Provenance

(Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York, by 1978); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1978; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Inscription

by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: Dessin de Viollet Le Duc,/architecte; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: [mounter's notes]

NGA object ID 143716. 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.