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Swallowing a Meal,
1861
Charles François Daubigny, 1817–1878; born Paris, France; died Paris
x1937-19 f
Daubigny was an accomplished naturalist painter who had been exhibiting bucolic landscapes from the Oise River Valley at the Salon for almost twenty years in 1857, when he purchased a twenty-eight-foot barge he had outfitted as a floating studio, from which he could paint and sketch the riverbank from scenic vantage points. Daubigny rowed his studio—christened "Le Botin" (The Little Box) by bemused locals—along the banks of the Seine, Oise, and Marne Rivers, often accompanied by his children and friends. The fifteen amusing autobiographical scenes that compose the Voyage en bateau portfolio were compiled from the pages of a sketchbook–probably drawn for his family's entertainment–that recorded multiple voyages from 1857 to 1861.
Information
Title
Swallowing a Meal
Dates
1861
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
image: 10.5 × 15.9 cm (4 1/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
plate: 13 × 17.9 cm (5 1/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
sheet: 31.4 × 44.8 cm (12 3/8 × 17 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan, Class of 1888
Object Number
x1937-19 f
Place Made
Europe, France, Paris
Inscription
Signed in plate, lower left corner: Daubigny
Inscribed in plate, lower right corner: Imp Delatre Paris
Reference Numbers
Delteil 104
Materials
Techniques
Junius S. Morgan (1867–1932); bequeathed to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1932
