Showing posts with label Charles François Daubigny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles François Daubigny. Show all posts

Sunday, March 13, 2016

St. Paul's from the Surrey Side (1871-73)

Charles François Daubigny: St. Paul's from the Surrey Side

This view shows St Paul's Cathedral in the distance, left of centre. The vantage point of the artist was on the south, or Surrey side of the river Thames, between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge. Daubigny first visited London in 1866, returning in 1870-71 to escape the Franco-Prussian war. This painting, dated 1873, was either begun on the spot and finished in the studio, or was worked up from sketches made of the river during this visit. [Gandalf’s Gallery]

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Twilight (1866)

Charles François Daubigny: Twilight

During the 1860s, Daubigny began regularly painting moonlight scenes, evoking a mood of melancholy that his biographer Frédéric Henriet attributed to his advancing age. He cruised up and down the Seine River in his studio-boat in search of subjects such as this view near the village of Andrésy. The picture was probably completed in the studio over several sessions and exhibited at the 1867 Paris Salon. [The Walters Art Museum]

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Charles François Daubigny (1865)

 Charles François Daubigny: Boats on the Oise
  
Charles François Daubigny: Washerwomen at the Oise River near Valmondois