Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011569Landscape
About the Artwork
This is a rare watercolor by Narcisse Diaz, who worked primarily in oil. The view is likely from the forest of Fontainebleau, near the village of Barbizon. In the 1830s, Diaz and other painters like Jean-François Millet frequently painted there, out of doors, directly from nature.
Inscriptions
signed, lower left, in brown ink: N. Diaz; verso, center, in graphite: 6435 [upside down]; lower right, in graphite: hw2x--
Provenance
Edith Bangs (letter from Vose Galleries, Boston); [Vose Galleries, Boston, 1959]; private collection, 1961 (letter from Vose Galleries, Boston); [PB Eighty-Four, New York (12 October 1978), no. 174]; purchased in 1978.
Exhibition history
French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807–1876)
- Date
- c. 1860
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink and graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 15 x 22.8 cm (5 7/8 x 9 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2008.389
More by Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña in museum collections
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