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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Diaz was born in Bordeaux in France of Spanish parents who had fled the Peninsular Wars. Bitten by a snake, he had to have his left arm amputated. He worked as a porcelain painter from 1822 to 1830 in a factory in Paris, was briefly tutored by the history painter François Souchon (1787-1857) but was mainly self-taught, making copies after works in the Louvre. His small-scale compositions of his own invention sold easily. He showed at the Paris Salons in the 1830s and 1840s. From about 1833 he met and was influenced by Théodore Rousseau (1812-1867) and worked with him and his fellow landscape painters at Fontainebleau. He quickly produced numerous images of mainly romantic subjects such as bathers, nymphs and oriental women. He won the Legion of Honour in 1851. His romantic idylls at the time commanded higher prices than those of Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) or Jean-François Millet (1814-1875). This woodland scene is typical of the many works of this style and subject matter that he produced in the 1860s. | Subjects: | figure; landscape; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Diaz de la Peña, Narcisse Virgile (French painter and printmaker, 1808-1876) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8827... | Go to resource |
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