Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009224About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Signed in lower right: Daubigny 1855
Provenance
Bought from the artist in 1878 by Count Armand Doria [1824-1896] Paris, France, for ff 2,500. 1912: (Galerie Heinemann, Munich, Germany, December 1912, sold to C.A. Platt for William G. Mather) 1912-1951: William G. Mather [1857-1951] Cleveland, OH, bequethed to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1951-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Charles Daubigny. Paine Art Center and Gardens, Oshkosh, WI (organizer) (May 1-31, 1964); The Gallery of Modern Art, New York, NY (June 16-August 2, 1964). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). The Draw of the Normandy Coast. Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (organizer) (June 14-September 2, 2012).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878)
- Date
- 1855
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of William G. Mather
- Accession no.
- 1951.323
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