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The Banks of the Oise,
1871
Charles François Daubigny, 1817–1878; born Paris, France; died Paris
y1950-15
Daubigny traveled to Italy, but his experience as a young restorer of Dutch landscape paintings at the Louvre Museum was more decisive in his approach to the French countryside. Direct observation, painting en plein air (outdoors), and sensitivity to momentary changes in the light and clouds were characteristic of his art. He worked with the Fontainebleau painters,
then moved to Auvers-sur-Oise and traveled on the Seine and Oise Rivers in the botin, a floating studio from which he could move about, from one picturesque river bank to another. This painting is typical of his interest in the gentle landscapes of the Île-de-France and its inhabitants.
Information
Title
The Banks of the Oise
Dates
1871
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
39.4 x 66.8 cm (15 1/2 x 26 5/16 in.)
frame: 59 x 86.5 x 7.1 cm (23 1/4 x 34 1/16 x 2 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Eugene Geddes
Object Number
y1950-15
Signatures
Signed in dark paint lower right corner: Daubigny 1871
Culture
Type
Materials
Knoedler, London; Eugene Geddes, New York (until 1950; gift to Princeton University Art Museum).
- "Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 9, no. 2 (1950): p. 15., p. 15
- Robert Hellebranth, Charles-François Daubigny: 1817-1878, (Morges: Matute, 1976)., p. 108; no. 316 (illus.)
- Earth's beauty revealed: the nineteenth-century European landscape, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2002)., cat. no. 4
