Charles-François Daubigny
On the Oise
1867
Physical Qualities
Oil on wood panel, 15 x 26 in. (38.1 x 66.1 cm.)
Credit Line
The Helen and Abram Eisenberg Collection
Object Number
1976.55.2
Daubigny was born into a family of artists and began to draw and paint in his youth, frequently working at Saint-Cloud and Clamart in the environs of Paris, as well as in the forest of Fontainebleau. Excursions into the countryside with his good friend, Camille Corot, reinforced his commitment to paint directly from nature. Drawn especially to rivers, he explored the Seine, Marne, and Oise waterways using a studio boat, which he moored when a particular vista pleased him. Here, with infinite subtlety, he captures the effect of soft light as it illuminates the river and its banks.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1976; Helen (Mrs. Abram) Eisenberg, Baltimore, 1933, on loan to The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967-1976; Abram Eisenberg, Baltimore, by purchase c. 1920s
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Triumph of French Painting, Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse", March 12-July 16 2000, no. 19 pp. 78-79 ill.; circulated to The Philbrook Museum of Art, The Norton Museum of Art, Dayton Art Institute, The Royal Academy of Arts, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, through 1/6/2002.
Sona K. Johnson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art", circulated by Brain Trust to Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, January 11-February 16, 2003; Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, February 27-March 30, 2003; Okazaki City Museum, April 5-May 18, 2003; Suntory Museum, Osaka, May 24-July 6, 2003; Miyazaki Prefectural Museum, July 12-August 17, 2003.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris", December 7, 2005-May 28, 2005.
Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape", February 11-May 13, 2007, circulated to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, through 1/6/2008. (BMA venue only)
Sona K. Johnson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art", circulated by Brain Trust to Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, January 11-February 16, 2003; Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, February 27-March 30, 2003; Okazaki City Museum, April 5-May 18, 2003; Suntory Museum, Osaka, May 24-July 6, 2003; Miyazaki Prefectural Museum, July 12-August 17, 2003.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris", December 7, 2005-May 28, 2005.
Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape", February 11-May 13, 2007, circulated to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, through 1/6/2008. (BMA venue only)
Volièré de Passeraux, "Millet, Corot and the School of Barbizon," Kobe, Japan: The Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, 1980, p. 156, ill. p. 24.
Sona K. Johnson et al, "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art" catalogue committee, 2003, no. 61, p. 90, ill. pp. 90-91.
