Extensive Landscape with a Village and Hillside in the Distance - Félix Hippolyte Lanoue

Bequest of Julius Lewis

"Extensive Landscape with a Village and Hillside in the Distance" by Félix Hippolyte Lanoue (c. 1860) Pastel on blue wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper.

Commentary

"Extensive Landscape with a Village and Hillside in the Distance" by Félix Hippolyte Lanoue (c. 1860) invites a close look at how form and feeling work together. Themes to notice include drawings (visual work s). This piece is held in the source collection's Prints and Drawings collection. Félix Hippolyte Lanoue is the artist behind this work. A useful anchor for reading the piece: Félix Hippolyte Lanoue French, 1812-1872. The work is cataloged within a France cultural context. How to look at this work: It is cataloged as drawings (visual works), which gives a clue to how the museum frames the object. Its medium (Pastel on blue wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper) affects texture, durability, and how detail reads at different distances. Its listed dimensions (27.5 × 69 cm (10 7/8 × 27 3/16 in.)) suggest how intimate or monumental it may feel in person. Subject cues from the catalog include drawings (visual works). Compare this reading with the museum record at the source collection: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/202305

Sources: Art Institute of Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago / Public Records; Art Institute of Chicago Collection Data