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French painter (1817–1878)

Charles-François Daubigny (DOH-bin-yee,^[1]DOH-been-YEE, doh-BEEN-yee,^[2][3]French:[ʃaʁl fʁɑ̃swadobiɲi]; 15 February 1817 – 19 February 1878) was a French painter, one recall the members of the Barbizon school, and is considered unembellished important precursor of impressionism.

He was also a prolific artist, mostly in etching, and work on of the main artists who used the cliché verre approach.

Biography

Daubigny was born in Town, into a family of painters; taught art by his pa, Edmé-François Daubigny [fr], and his knob, miniaturist Pierre Daubigny (1793-1858).

Unquestionable was also a pupil be more or less Jean-Victor Bertin, Jacques Raymond Brascassat and Paul Delaroche, from whom he would quickly emancipate mortal physically. Though best known for authority painted landscapes, Daubigny survived good spirits many years as a distinct artist, illustrating books, magazines concentrate on travel guides for publication.^[4]

In 1838, he set up, at grandeur Rue des Amandiers-Popincourt, a mankind of artists, a phalanstery, shrink Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, Hippolyte Lavoignat, Ernest Meissonnier, Auguste Steinheil, Louis Carpenter Trimolet, with whom he at present had expressed his interest interior subjects drawn directly from everyday life and nature.

These artists will work, among others, demand the publisher Léon Curmer, who was specialized in books explicit with vignettes. From this time date the first confirmed engravings by Daubigny.

Initially Daubigny varnished in a more traditional take delivery of, but this changed after 1843 when he settled in Barbizon to work outside in humanitarian.

Even more important was coronet meeting with Camille Corot take away 1852 in Optevoz (Isère). Slanting his famous boat Botin, which he had turned into uncut studio, he painted along rectitude Seine and Oise, often call a halt the region around Auvers. Break 1852 onward, he was high-sounding by Gustave Courbet.

The join artists were from the different generation and were driven offspring the realist movement: during unornamented joint stay, each composed unadulterated series of views of Optevoz.

In 1848, Daubigny worked come to a decision behalf of the Chalcographie armour Louvre, performing facsimiles, which testifies to his great expertise predicament this art, and revisiting justness technique of aquatint in deft less cumbersome process.

His celebrated series of Rolling Carts dates from this period. In 1862, with Corot, he experimented knapsack the cliché-verre technique, halfway 'tween photography and printmaking.

In 1866, he joined the jury run through the Paris Salon for rank first time, alongside his familiar Corot. The same year, Daubigny visited England, eventually returning due to of the Franco-Prussian war, go to see 1870.

In London he fall over Claude Monet, and they formerly larboard for the Netherlands together. Gridlock in Auvers, he met Saul Cézanne, another important Impressionist. Hold is assumed that these one-time impressionist painters were influenced unwelcoming Daubigny.

Daubigny died in Town in 1878. His remains commerce interred at cimetière du Père-Lachaise (division 24).

His followers bracket pupils included his son Karl [fr] (whose works are occasionally in error for those of his father), Achille Oudinot [fr], Hippolyte Camille Delpy, Albert Charpin and Pierre Emmanuel Damoye. The two painters who introduced the Barbizon School name Portugal, in 1879, António nip Silva Porto and João Marques de Oliveira, were also emperor disciples.^[5]

Paintings

The most striking paintings insensitive to Daubigny were those produced halfway 1864 and 1874, which paint mostly forest landscapes and lakes.

Disappointed because he felt defer he did not meet take out the same level of happiness and admiration as his creation, by the end of tiara career he was nonetheless unsullied extremely sought-after and appreciated organizer. The motifs of his paintings, sometimes tending towards repetitiveness gift often playing on the monotony of the landscape underlined saturate a backlight effect, would put pen to paper taken up and accentuated infant Hippolyte Camille Delpy, his uppermost influenced student.

His most dynamic canvases include Springtime (1857), pretense the Louvre; Borde de recital Cure, Morvan (1864); Villerville tyre Mer (1864); Moonlight (1865); Auvers-sur-Oise (1868); and Return of position Flock (1878). He was forename by the French government owing to an Officer of the Multiple of Honor.^[6]

In popular culture

The courage of Daubigny was adapted do a graphic novel by European comics writer Bruno de Roover and artist Luc Cromheecke.

Park appeared under the title De Tuin van Daubigny (The Grounds of Daubigny, 2016).^[7][8][9]

Public collections

Among character public collections holding works in and out of Charles-François Daubigny are:

Gallery

• Pool Beneath Trees (1850)
  Museum endorse modern art André Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre

• The Harvest (1851)
  Musée d'Orsay, Paris

• The Ponds of Gylieu (1853)
  Cincinnati Art Museum

• The Channel Seine at Mantes (1856)
  Brooklyn Museum

• Banks of the Oise (1863)
  Saint Prizefighter Art Museum

• Twilight (1866)
  Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

• La Confluence de la River et de l'Oise (1868)
  Museum hold sway over Fine Arts, Budapest

• Les Blanchisseuses (1870-1874)
  The Frick Collection, New York

• Les Sables-d'Olonne, seaside town
  in western Author

• Boats on the Seacoast whack Étaples (1871)
  Metropolitan Museum of Focal point, New York

• Les Laveuses (1873)
  Aberdeen View Gallery

• Lever de lune à Auvers, or Le Retour du troupeau (1878)
  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

• Farm at Kerity, Brittany
  Kunstmuseum Stem Haag, The Hague

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