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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Charles-Francoise Daubigny received his first training as a painter from his father, the landscapist Edmé-Francois. He then travelled to Italy in 1835-36, before becoming a pupil of the history painter Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1838, the year he also first exhibited at the Paris Salon. He travelled widely throughout France, sometimes with Corot, and he visited England, Holland and Spain. Daubigny was an important early exponent of plein-air painting in France. A key member of the Barbizon school, he specialised as a painter of river and woodland scenes, which at their best realistically capture the natural, unidealised appearance of the site and convey a clarity of light and atmospheric effect that recalls Dutch landscape painting of the Golden Age. Both Monet and Boudin admired his works. The Southampton painting traditionally called On the River Loire was probably begun on site and completed in the studio. This may explain the works slightly laboured feel. The scene appears to have been taken from high on the river bank, or from aboard the artist's moored studio boat. An expanse of bright reflective water fills the foreground. This is framed to the left by a copse of sun lit trees by the river and to the right by an avenue of low trees. In the foreground two washerwomen have been hastily sketched in and beyond them is a quay with a moored sail-boat. Along the banks of the river in the middle distance are a series of sketched-in houses barely discernible from the open hills that lead the eye to the horizon and the broadly painted cloudy sky. A second painting of equally small dimensions and with a very similar composition is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 64.149.7). | Subjects: | France) landscape; place (Loire river | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Daubigny, Charles François (French landscapist, 1817-1878) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8405... | Go to resource |
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