1860
oil
paperboard
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
River Boat is a 1860 oil by Charles François Daubigny, a Barbizon school work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
A small brown boat floats on a calm river, surrounded by soft green trees and a pale sky. The water reflects the clouds above, and the brushstrokes are loose and quick, giving the scene a quiet, hazy feel. Daubigny painted many of his works from a studio boat he lived on, drifting down French rivers. This gave him a close view of nature at all hours, which shows in the gentle light and natural colors. He often painted outdoors, which was still uncommon for many artists at the time. Look up the technique: impasto.
In the possession of the artist, Charles François Daubigny (died 1878); sold, his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 6, 1878, lot 172, as Remorqueur près du Havre. Robert Churchill Vose and Nathaniel Morton Vose, Boston, by 1917; sold, American Art Galleries, New York, April 4, 1917, lot 91, as French Tug-Boat, for $280 to Francis Ralston Welsh, Devon, Penn. [American Art Association record book for 1917]; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 26, 1938, lot 500 to Hannah D. Rabinowitz [according to Sotheby's fax dated September 16, 2003, in curatorial file]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New…
New York, Wildenstein and Company, Camille Pissarro: His Place in Art, October 24–November 24, 1945, cat. 55. Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft Museum of Art, Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscapes, Feb. 19-May 29, 2016, fig. 58; traveled to the Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Scottish National Gallery, June 25-October 2, 2016, and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Oct. 21, 2016-Jan. 29, 2017.
John Rewald, "Pissarro and His Circle," Art News 44 (October 15–31, 1945), pp. 17–18 (ill.). John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (New York, 1946), p. 91 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1967–68 (Chicago, 1968), p. 18. Art Institute of Chicago, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (unpublished typescript, 1971), p. 24. Robert Hellebranth, Charles-François Daubigny, 1817–1878 (Morges, Switzerland, 1976), p. 224, no. 675. Clarke, Michael. 2015. "Tales of the Riverbank: Daubigny's River Scenes," In Daubigny, Monet, Van…
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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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