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Charles-François
Daubigny
French Barbizon School painter, etcher,
lithographer, printmaker & woodcutter
born 15 February 1817 - died 19 February
1878
Student of:
Jacques Raymond Brascassat
(1804-1867) from 1831 to 1832,
Edmé-François Daubigny
(1789-1843),
Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) in
1840.
Teacher of: Karl
Pierre Daubigny (1846-1886),
John Joseph Enneking
(1841-1916) from 1874 to 1876,
Alfred Roll
(1846-1919),
António Carvalho da Silva Porto
(1850-1893).
Father of: Karl
Pierre Daubigny (1846-1886).
Son of: Edmé-François
Daubigny (1789-1843).
Nephew of: Amélie
Daubigny (1796-1861),
Pierre Daubigny
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Knight of: Légion d'Honneur
(from 1859).
DAUBIGNY, CHARLES FRANÇOIS (1817—1878),
French landscape painter, allied in several
ways with the Barbizon School, was born in
Paris, on the 15th of February 1817, but
spent much time as a child at Valmondois, a
village on the Oise to the northwest of
Paris. Daubigny was the son of an artist,
and most of his family were painters.
Charles François Daubigny began to paint very early in life, and at
the age of seventeen Charles François
Daubigny took a studio of his
own. Within twelve months Charles François
Daubigny had saved
enough to go to Italy, where Charles
François Daubigny studied and
painted for nearly two years; Charles
François Daubigny then
returned to Paris, not to leave it again
until, in 1860, Charles François Daubigny took a house at Auvers on
the Oise. By 1837 Daubigny had become famous
as a river and landscape painter, although
Charles François Daubigny had been devoting himself as well to
drawing in black-and-white, to etching, wood
engraving, and lithography. In 1855 his
picture, Lock at Optevoz, now in the Louvre,
was purchased by the state; four years later
Daubigny was created knight of the Legion of
Honour, and in 1874 Charles François
Daubigny was promoted to bean
officer. In 1866, at the invitation of Lord,
then Mr, Leighton and others, Charles
François Daubigny visited
London, where, however, Charles François
Daubigny was hurt by his
now famous Moonlight being badly hung in the
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But the personal encouragement of his
admirers in England made up for the
disappointment, and the sale of his picture
to a Royal Academician greatly pleased him.
In. 1870—1871 Charles François Daubigny again visited London, and
subsequently Holland, where Charles François
Daubigny painted a
number of river scenes with windmills. In
1874, having returned to Paris, Charles
François Daubigny fell ill,
and from that time until Charles François
Daubigny died (on the
19th of February 1878) his work won less
distinction than before. In 1904 the
municipality of Auvers-sur-Oise decided to
erect a bronze monument to Daubigny’s
memory. |
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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 curiously been said, yet with
some appearance of truth, that when Daubigny
liked his pictures himself Charles François
Daubigny added another
duck or two, so that the number of ducks
often indicates greater or less artistic
quality in his pictures. One of his sayings
was, “The best pictures do not sell,” as
Charles François Daubigny frequently found his finest achievements
little understood. Yet although during the
latter part of his life Charles François
Daubigny was considered a
highly successful painter, the money value
of his pictures since his death has
increased nearly tenfold. Daubigny is
chiefly preferred in his riverside pictures,
of which Charles François Daubigny 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. |
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The works of
Daubigny are, like Corot’s, to be found in
many modern collections. His most ambitious
canvases are: Springtime (1857), in the
Louvre; Borde dela Cure, Morvan (1864);
Villerville sur Mer (1864); Moonlight
(1865); Andrésy sur Oise (1868); and Return
of the Flock — Moonlight (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
and Damoye. |
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