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The image shows a narrow alleyway with weathered wooden structures on each side. The stone path leads to a passage between the structures. The scene features bright foliage in green and yellow hues, creating dappled sunlight. Brushstrokes depict the texture of wood and stone. The composition is vertically oriented with no distinct horizon. The color palette includes warm earth tones, vibrant greens, and bright blue. A figure in a red skirt and dark shawl carries a bundle in the distance, adding scale to the scene.
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The image shows a narrow alleyway with weathered wooden structures on each side. The stone path leads to a passage between the structures. The scene features bright foliage in green and yellow hues, creating dappled sunlight. Brushstrokes depict the texture of wood and stone. The composition is vertically oriented with no distinct horizon. The color palette includes warm earth tones, vibrant greens, and bright blue. A figure in a red skirt and dark shawl carries a bundle in the distance, adding scale to the scene.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Village Street in Northern Italy

Eugenio Gignous

Date
1874
Medium
watercolor with gouache over traces of graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 36.7 × 24 cm (14 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2017.82.2
Credit line
Purchased as the Gift of Joan and David Maxwell
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • architecture
  • Street
  • figure
  • plant
Provenance

(Galerie Louvois SARL, Paris); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Inscription

lower right in brown ink: E Gignous / 1874

NGA object ID 210156. 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.