Auvers, Landscape with Plough

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Auvers, Landscape with Plough

Artist Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878)

Place of OriginFrance

Date1872-1877

DimensionsH: 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)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott

Object number

2015.18

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 33

Label TextResponding 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.Published ReferencesDaubigny: Auvers-Sur-Oise, Auvers-Sur-Oise, Musee Daubigny, repr. p. 32, no. 40.

"Daubigny's Auvers, Landscape with Plough Purchased by the Toledo Museum of Art," Artdaily.org, June 18, 2015, repr. (col.), Link to resource.

Exhibition HistoryAuvers-sur-Oise, Musée Daubigny, Daubigny, père et fils, Sept. 14-17, 2000 (titled: Paysage à la charrue).

Toledo Museum of Art, From the Collection: 300 Years of French Landscape Painting, Jul. 17-Oct. 11, 2015.

Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape, Feb. 20-May 29, 2016.