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Keywords: NO RESERVE, Barbizon School movement, Realism period, early Impressionist influence, plein air landscape tradition, rural scene, pastoral countryside, waterscape, wall art, picture
Summary:
Charles Francois Daubigny Signed Daubigny lower right 19th century French Barbizon School oil on canvas painting depicting a washerwoman working along a wooded riverbank.
There was something exceptionally attractive about Daubigny, both as a man and as an artist. A painter with a style that concealed all innovations in apparent conventionality, he easily achieved popularity with the public and was elected to the jury of the Salon. There he waged a loyal and lonely fight to admit to the annual exhibitions the work of the younger and more radical painters. During the Franco-Prussian War, he fled to England, where he persuaded his dealer, Durand-Ruel, who had opened a gallery in London, to try to sell the landscapes of an unknown and poverty-stricken artist, Claude Monet. Daubigny offered to exchange his own marketable canvases for any work by Monet that remained unsold.
The place Daubigny loved best was the village of Auver-sur-Oise, to which he returned every year. Aboard his barge, a floating studio, he sometimes went down the Oise and the Seine. In 1865, he spent the summer with Courbet, Monet and Boudin at Trouville. He died in 1878 in Paris.
(Relined. Surface shows craquelure throughout with areas of restoration and inpainting, including a more evident restored area in the lower left quadrant. There is surface wear, scattered abrasion, and thinning in places, with some old varnish discoloration and grime. Edges show wear and losses, and the canvas has been trimmed or presents close to the stretcher at the margins. Overall the painting retains a pleasing appearance, but restoration is present and visible under close inspection. Unframed.)
Measurement: Art: 20 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (52.1 x 90.2 cm.) approx
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