# A Peasant's House in a Valley

**Eugène Edouard Soulès** (French, 1811–1876)  
ca. 1840  
Graphite on paper  
20.4 × 27.9 cm (8 1/16 in. × 11 in.)

Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1931-64-277. [The museum's record](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/47711).

## About this work

The house is at left. Framing lines.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

Eugène Edouard Soulès drew this in about 1840, aged 29. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

### What you’re looking at

A PEASANT'S HOUSE IN A VALLEY

_Description from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

### How it was made

- **Graphite.** Pencil. Graphite has been used for drawing since the 1500s; in 1795 Nicolas-Jacques Conté mixed it with clay, so its hardness could be graded.

### [Eugène Edouard Soulès](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/eugene-edouard-soules)

French, 1811–1876

## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- The artist was 29
- Real size: about 8 × 11 in (20 × 28 cm). The 8 × 10 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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