Paysage avec un ruisseau ensoleillé (c.1877)

Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878)

Paysage avec un ruisseau ensoleillé (Landscape with a Sunlit Stream)
c.1877
Oil on canvas, 63.8 x 47.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York

Daubigny began exhibiting his work regularly at the Salon in 1838, and by the early 1850s he had achieved considerable success as a landscape painter. Water figures prominently in his imagery—notably, in his riverscapes painted from the vantage point of his studio-boat. This painting’s flickering brushwork and lightened palette relate it to the works of the Impressionists, whose influence on Daubigny grew out of his contact with Pissarro and Monet in the 1860s and early 1870s. (MET)