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Villerville Seen from Le Ratier
Charles-François Daubigny1855
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Villerville Seen from Le Ratier
- Creator: Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878)
- Date Created: 1855
- Physical 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.)
- 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), William G. Mather [1857-1951] Cleveland, OH, bequethed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.323
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Inscriptions: Signed in lower right: Daubigny 1855
- Fun Fact: Daubigny turned his boat, <em>Le Botin</em> (Little Box), into a studio where he painted while cruising the Seine, Marne, and Oise rivers in France.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of William G. Mather
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1951.323
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