Landscape with a River
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
Maker
1817-1878
Title
Landscape with a River
Date of Production
1860
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
Height: 28.7 cm (panel)
Width: 59.1 cm (panel)
Width: 59.1 cm (panel)
Object Number
P.1978.PG.85
Mode of Acquisition
Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Daubigny specialised in river views. In 1857, he acquired a small boat he used as a floating studio and explored the rivers around his home of Auvers, northwest of Paris. Daubigny moored in places where the landscape struck him as providing an ideal composition for a painting.
The horizontal format of this picture enables the artist to capture a vast expanse of sky and a sweeping view of a river, almost certainly the Oise, with wooded banks
The horizontal format of this picture enables the artist to capture a vast expanse of sky and a sweeping view of a river, almost certainly the Oise, with wooded banks
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : signed and dated : lower left & recto : : Daubigny 1860
Provenance
Princes Gate Bequest 1978
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