Charles François Daubigny, The Boat in Conflans
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph King, the Frederick Keppel Memorial, 1920.666 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Charles François Daubigny

The Boat in Conflans

1866

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
etching on chine collé
Dimensions
26.9 × 36.7 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-215838

Closely associated with the Barbizon school artists, Daubigny began his career painting landscapes in the Forest of Fontainebleau. His love of water scenes led him to portray innumerable sites along the rivers of France. In 1857, Daubigny launched his "botin," the studio boat that fostered the development of his plein-air aesthetic by enabling him to paint while traveling the French waterways, such as the Oise, the Marne, and the Seine rivers. This etching of the artist in his "floating studio" is from Voyage en Bateau, an album of etchings recording Daubigny’s river travels with his friend C…

Provenance

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph King, the Frederick Keppel Memorial, 1920.666

Registry history

  • 1866 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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