Charles-François Daubigny

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Charles-François Daubigny (Paris, 15 February 1817 – 19 February 1878 in Paris) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism.

Charles-François Daubigny

Paintings

Honoré Daumier

Alders

Landscape with Cattle by a Stream

River Scene with Ducks

St Paul's from the Surrey Side

The confluence of the Seine and Oise

The Banks of the Oise

Sunset on the Oise

Banks of the Oise

Around Villerville

Illustrations

Apple Trees at Auvers

Countryside at Subiaco

Notre-Dame of Paris

View of Subiaco

Castel Gélos

The study room of Monsieur Thiers

The studio boat in Conflans

The bushes

The house of Monsieur Thiers

The haymaking

The chicken and its chicks

The pig in an orchard

The valley of San Juan del Oro

The Eagle's Nest

The creek in the clearing

The burning of the farm

The donkey at the Trough

The donkey in the meadow

The river in the park

Spring

The chamois hunter

The autumn

The cart with the condemned

The market at the Temple

The monk

The orchard

The path in the cornfield

The Shower

The Satyr

The sunbeam

The beach of Villerville

The Swamp

The Winter garden

The Bathers

The Bridge

The threshing machine

The alder

The ferry

The ferry from Bezons

The ford

The deer

The deer on the shore

The dogs guard

The Virgin Islands of Bezons

The Church of Sainte- Amélie -aux -Places

The small rider

The herd of cows

The pack horses

The arbor

The mill

The pension of Madame Dautel

The rolling carts

The Return of the Herd

The ruins of the castle of Crémieux

The Seine at Port- Maurin

The potions

The banks of the Furon

The surroundings of Choisy- le- Roi

The Vintage

The meadow of Graves at Villerville

The goatherd

Ducks in the swamp

The inauguration of the Triumph Column

Album du Voyage en bateau

»Album du Voyage en bateau«

Clipped pastures

storm

Large sheep enclosure

Coming thunderstorm

Deer in the Wood

Shepherd and Shepherdess

St. Jerome

Huts on the shore

Illustration for " Les Fables de Lachambeaudie "

»Les Fables de Lachambeaudie«

Illustration of Fourier's "social utopia"

Illustration to " Cinderella "

Illustration to " Bluebeard "

Illustration to " Thumbelina "

Illustration to " Donkey Skin "

Illustration to " Little Red Riding Hood "

" Chants et chansons populaires "

Illustrations for " Chants et chansons populaires "

" Chants et chansons populaires "

In Argenteuil house to be rented

Small birds

Little Sheep enclosure

Cows at the watering

Cows in the swamp

Cows in the forest

Le Bon pauvre

Les bords du cousin

moon rising

Moonrise on the banks of the Oise

Moon rising in the valley of Andilly

plant study

sunrise

sunset

Study with five motifs

Pond with deer

Title vignette

Vignettes

business card

Full Moon in Valmondois

Vintage in Champlay

How the cities are born

Daubigny was born into a family of painters and was taught the art by his father Edmond François Daubigny and his uncle, miniaturist Pierre Daubigny.

Initially Daubigny painted in a traditional style, but this changed after 1843 when he settled in Barbizon to work outside in nature. Even more important was his meeting with Camille Corot in 1852 in Optevoz (Isère). On his famous boat Botin, which he had turned into a studio, he painted along the Seine and Oise, often in the region around Auvers. From 1852 onward he came under the influence of Gustave Courbet.

In 1866 Daubigny visited England, eventually returning because of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. In London he met Claude Monet, and together they left for the Netherlands. Back in Auvers, he met Paul Cézanne, another important impressionist. It is assumed that these younger painters were influenced by Daubigny.
Typical painting of Seine and Oise, 1865

Daubigny's finest pictures were painted between 1864 and 1874 , and these for the most part consist of carefully completed landscapes with trees, river and a few ducks. It has been said that when Daubigny liked his pictures he added another duck or two, so that the number of ducks often indicates greater or less artistic quality in his pictures.[citation needed] One of his sayings was, "The best pictures do not sell," as he frequently found his finest achievements little understood. Daubigny is chiefly preferred for his riverside pictures, of which he painted a great number, but although there are two large landscapes by Daubigny in the Louvre, neither is a river view. They are for that reason not so typical as many of his smaller Oise and Seine pictures.

His most ambitious canvases are: Springtime (1857), in the Louvre; Borde de la Cure, Morvan (1864); Villerville sur Mer (1864); Moonlight (1865); Auvers-sur-Oise (1868); and Return of the Flock (1878).

His followers and pupils were his son Karl (who sometimes painted so well that his works are occasionally mistaken for those of his father, though in few cases do they equal his father's mastery), Oudinot, Delpy, Albert Charpin and Pierre Emmanuel Damoye.