Title:
Landscape
Creator/Contributor:
Charles-Francois Daubigny (artist)
Date:
undated
Identifier:
1976.15
Format:
oil on canvas
Daubigny's art sprang from a humble vision of the rural countryside.
In an age of economic prosperity, Daubigny and other artists (including Diaz de la Pe-a and Rousseau) set themselves in opposition
to urban life by establishing the practice of painting out-of-doors at Barbizon, in the Fontainebleau Forest. Daubigny's vision-of
a universally accessible land inhabited by common people-posed a counterpoint to the new cosmopolitan brilliance and modernity
of a revitalized Paris.