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Plants and Ivies by a Stream

Eugène Bléry

1848

ink

paper

From the collection of National Gallery of Art

Romanticism Early 19th Century Floral

Dominant colour

Plants and Ivies by a Stream is a 1848 ink by Eugène Bléry, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.

Who painted this?: Eugène Bléry
When & what style?: 1848 · Romanticism
Where can I see it?: National Gallery of Art

About this work

You see ivy curling along a stream under soft light. Bléry layered ink to make shadows and highlights pop on paper. It’s not a painting—it’s a lithograph, a print pulled from a smooth stone. The artist made this in 1849, just before photography took off. He captured tiny details like veins in leaves and ripples in water. That kind of focus shows why lithography became popular then. Look for prints like this next at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.