1855
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Villerville Seen from Le Ratier is a 1855 unspecified by Charles François Daubigny, a Barbizon school work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a wide, misty view of the Normandy coast—rocks in the front, a little town tucked to the right, and a pale sky over water. Daubigny painted this outside, not in a studio. He wanted the light and air to feel real, not polished. Those quick brushstrokes later helped shape how Monet and others worked. Look up the subject “France, 19th century, mod euro” next.
The town of Villerville on the Normandy coast appears just to the right of center in this expansive landscape by Daubigny, a pioneer of outdoor painting and a major influence on Claude Monet and the Impressionists. Daubigny introduced a new kind of natural landscape based on outdoor studies of light, water, and atmospheric conditions. Here, streaks of bright light along the horizon set off the dark masses of the rocky shore in the foreground.
Daubigny turned his boat, Le Botin (Little Box), into a studio where he painted while cruising the Seine, Marne, and Oise rivers in France.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Charles-François Daubigny ( DOH-bin-yee, US: DOH-been-YEE, doh-BEEN-yee, French: ; 15 February 1817 – 19 February 1878) was a French painter, one of the members of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism.
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