Auvers, Landscape with Plough
Artist: Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878)
Date: 1872-1877
Dimensions:
H: 18 5/16 in. (46.5 cm); W: 32 1/16 in. (81.5 cm)
Framed: 29 1/4 x 42 1/2 x 4 3/8 in. (74.3 x 108 x 11.1 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number: 2015.18
Label Text:Responding to 17th-century Dutch landscape paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan van Goyen, and others, Charles-François Daubigny embarked on a career as a landscape painter. A member of the Barbizon School of painters early in his career, he was interested in transitory light effects. Daubigny developed his technique increasingly toward a spontaneous application of paint, resulting in one critic lambasting him for “heading up the school of the impression.” Indeed, Daubigny’s work did influence the Impressionists.
From 1860 Daubigny made his home at Auvers-sur-Oise, located northwest of Paris (the town also would later become the residence of Vincent van Gogh, who was profoundly influenced by Daubigny). The vast fields adjacent to this village captured his attention. In this canvas from the last year of his life Daubigny has painted a scene laden with nature’s fleeting aspect. One half sky and one half earth, the horizon line gently slopes downward to the right. The dynamism of the turbulent clouds through which the sun appears is matched by the riot of greens and browns of the rising and descending fields.
From 1860 Daubigny made his home at Auvers-sur-Oise, located northwest of Paris (the town also would later become the residence of Vincent van Gogh, who was profoundly influenced by Daubigny). The vast fields adjacent to this village captured his attention. In this canvas from the last year of his life Daubigny has painted a scene laden with nature’s fleeting aspect. One half sky and one half earth, the horizon line gently slopes downward to the right. The dynamism of the turbulent clouds through which the sun appears is matched by the riot of greens and browns of the rising and descending fields.
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