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This image shows a landscape with a path, trees, foliage, a tree with pink blossoms, and a sky with warm yellow light. The painting has a variety of colors, textures, and brushstrokes that create a dynamic and impressionistic scene.
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This image shows a landscape with a path, trees, foliage, a tree with pink blossoms, and a sky with warm yellow light. The painting has a variety of colors, textures, and brushstrokes that create a dynamic and impressionistic scene.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Hillside Path with Blooming Cherry Trees under an Overcast Sky

Francesco Paolo Michetti

Date
1905
Medium
pastel, charcoal, and stumping with touches of gouache on blue paper laid down on card
Dimensions
sheet: 30.1 × 44.5 cm (11 7/8 × 17 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2014.109.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1901 to 1925
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Landscape
Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's London, 8-9 October 1980, no. 436, pl. XXXI); Eric Holder, London; by descent until 2013; (sale, Christie's South Kensington, 8 October 2013, no. 388 [color]); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Inscription

In black chalk at lower right: 18 III 05 FP Michetti

NGA object ID 166128. 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.