Description
The town of Villerville on the Normandy coast appears just to the right of center in this expansive landscape by Daubigny, a pioneer of outdoor painting and a major influence on Claude Monet and the Impressionists. Daubigny introduced a new kind of natural landscape based on outdoor studies of light, water, and atmospheric conditions. Here, streaks of bright light along the horizon set off the dark masses of the rocky shore in the foreground.
Provenance
Bought from the artist in 1878 by Count Armand Doria [1824-1896] Paris, France, for ff 2,500.; (Galerie Heinemann, Munich, Germany, December 1912, sold to C.A. Platt for William G. Mather) (1912); William G. Mather [1857-1951] Cleveland, OH, bequethed to the Cleveland Museum of Art (1912-1951); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1951-)
Accession Number
1951.323
Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
Framed: 80 x 141.5 x 7.5 cm (31 1/2 x 55 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 54.2 x 116.2 cm (21 5/16 x 45 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Bequest of William G. Mather
