Oil on panel signed Daubigny 1873

Oil painting on panel signed and dated Daubigny 1873. The work is in a good general state of conservation, to note some swelling of the color in the lower part of the painting. The painting is adorned with a splendid carved and gilded gold leaf frame.

Painting 50 x 61 cm

Frame 81×71

Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878)

French landscape painter, one of the first exponents of plein air painting in France. He came from a family of artists and was initially a pupil of his father Edmé-François (1789–1843), also a landscape painter; he also learned a lot by copying XNUMXth-century Dutch paintings in the Louvre. Although he is considered a member of the Barbizon school, he never lived in the locality, and his favorite subjects were river scenes rather than forest (he often painted from a specially equipped boat). His work, notable for the sensitivity with which it depicted the effects of light on trees and water, had an important influence on early Impressionism