{"data": {"id": 128363, "accession_number": "1951.323", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Villerville Seen from Le Ratier, 1855. Charles Fran\u00e7ois Daubigny (French, 1817\u20131878). Oil on fabric; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of William G. Mather, 1951.323", "current_location": "220 19th Century European", "title": "Villerville Seen from Le Ratier", "creation_date": "1855", "creation_date_earliest": 1855, "creation_date_latest": 1855, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["France, 19th century"], "technique": "oil on fabric", "support_materials": [], "department": "Modern European Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "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.)", "dimensions": {"framed": {"height": 0.8, "height_inch": 31, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 1.415, "width_inch": 55, "width_inch_fraction": 0.6875, "depth": 0.075, "depth_inch": 2, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.9375}, "unframed": {"height": 0.542, "height_inch": 21, "height_inch_fraction": 0.3125, "width": 1.162, "width_inch": 45, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "Signed in lower right: Daubigny 1855\r\n", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 520451, "title": "Charles Daubigny", "description": "<i>Charles Daubigny</i>. 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).", "opening_date": "1964-05-01T04:00:00"}, {"id": 304561, "title": "Visions of Landscape: East and West", "description": "<i>Visions of Landscape: East and West</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).", "opening_date": "1982-02-17T05:00:00"}, {"id": 224215, "title": "The Draw of the Normandy Coast", "description": "<i>The Draw of the Normandy Coast</i>. Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (organizer) (June 14-September 2, 2012).", "opening_date": "2012-06-14T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "Louis Martinet, Boulevard des Italiens. Paris, France (January 1862).", "opening_date": null}, {"description": "<em>Cleveland Art Loan Exposition under the Auspices of the Cleveland School of Art</em>. Kinney and Levan Building, Cleveland, OH (1913).", "opening_date": "1913-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Barbizon Revisited</em>. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (1962-63).", "opening_date": "1962-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>First American Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Charles Fran\u00e7ois Daubigny.</em> Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI; Gallery of Modern Art, New York, NY (1964).", "opening_date": "1964-01-01T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Bought from the artist in 1878 by Count Armand Doria [1824-1896] Paris, France, for ff 2,500.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "(Galerie Heinemann, Munich, Germany, December 1912, sold to C.A. Platt for William G. Mather)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1912", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "William G. Mather [1857-1951] Cleveland, OH, bequethed to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1912-1951", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1951-", "sortorder": 4}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "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.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "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.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60515831"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1951.323-villerville-seen-fro"]}, "citations": [{"citation": null, "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>Katalog franzo\u0308sischer und altspanischer Meister: permanente Ausstellung von Werken erstklassiger deutscher, franzo\u0308sischer, altenglischer und altspanischer Meister.</em> Galerie Heinemann; (Mu\u0308nchen). 1914.", "page_number": "Reproduced: unpaginated", "url": null}, {"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Bequest of William G. Mather: Paintaings.\" <em>The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXVIII</em> no. 8 (October, 1951):197-198.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 198", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisitions Press Release,\u201d September 26, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr0030"}, {"citation": "\"Mather Bequest to Cleveland.\" <em>Art Digest </em>26 (October 15, 1951): 10.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 10", "url": null}, {"citation": "Coe, Nancy. <em>The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland</em>. 1955.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 161, vol. 2", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 496", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n91"}, {"citation": "Gregg, Richard N. \"Charles Francois Daubigny, Forerunner of Impressionism.\" <em>Antiques</em> 85 (May 1964): 548-551.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 550", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 169", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n193"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 169", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n193"}, {"citation": "Fidell-Beaufort, Madeleine, Charles Franc\u0327ois Daubigny, and Janine Bailly-Herzberg. <em>Daubigny</em>. Paris, France: Geoffroy-Dechaume, 1975.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 122, fig. 38", "url": null}, {"citation": "Hellebranth, Robert. <em>Charles-Franc\u0327ois Daubigny: 1817-1878</em>. Morges, Switzerland: Matute, 1976.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 209", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n229"}, {"citation": "Chong, Alan. <em>European &amp; American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 52", "url": null}, {"citation": "Hellebranth, Robert and Anne Hellebranth. <em>Charles-Franc\u0327ois Daubigny, 1817-1878</em>. France: [publisher not identified], 1996.", "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. </em>Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 67", "url": null}, {"citation": "Burgess, Margaret E., Frances Fowle, and Richard Kendall. <em>The Draw of the Normandy Coast: 1860-1960</em>. Portland, ME: The Portland Museum of Art, 2012.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 22, fig. 6", "url": null}, {"citation": "Clarke, Michael, Frances Fowle, Lynne Ambrosini, Maite van Dijk, Nienke Bakker, and Rene\u0301 Boitelle. <em>Inspiring Impressionism: Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh</em>. Edinburgh, Scotland: National Galleries of Scotland, 2015.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 84-85, no. 75", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.323", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.323/1951.323_web.jpg", "width": "1263", "height": "588", "filesize": "470851", "filename": "1951.323_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.323/1951.323_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "1582", "filesize": "3570564", "filename": "1951.323_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.323/1951.323_full.tif", "width": "6105", "height": "2841", "filesize": "52063348", "filename": "1951.323_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Bequest of William G. Mather", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": "Victoire and Alfred Rankin Jr. Gallery", "athena_id": 128363, "creators": [{"id": 1626, "description": "Charles Fran\u00e7ois Daubigny (French, 1817\u20131878)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "The son of a painter, Charles Fran\u00e7ois Daubigny received his initial training from his father, Edmond Fran\u00e7ois Daubigny (1789-1843), a student of Bertin (q.v.). Daubigny's uncle, Pierre, and his uncle's wife were also painters. In order to finance a trip to Italy, Daubigny began painting decorative panels for the Mus\u00e9e de Versailles. By 1835 he had earned enough money for the excursion and, accompanied by Henri Mignon, traveled through Rome, Florence, Pisa, and Genoa, studying the Italian country-side. Upon his return to Paris in 1836 Daubigny began working for Granet (q.v.) in the paintings restoration depart-ment of the Louvre. He made his Salon debut two years later and would regularly show there until 1868. During this time he also learned etching, and it became a good source of income while still allowing him time to paint. Daubigny began to travel often, to Normandy in 1842, to the forest of Fontainebleau and on to Burgundy in 1843. He became friends with Corot (q.v.), and the two artists painted together in Switzerland and the Dauphin\u00e9. In 1857 Daubigny bought a boat that he converted into a studio and used to explore the Oise, Marne, and Seine rivers. The boat allowed him freedom to choose the best viewpoints for his landscapes, an idea that Monet (q.v.) would adopt years later. Daubigny achieved some financial success, received the Legion of Honor in 1859, and a year later built a home and studio in Auvers. In 1861, however, he was criticized because his works were becoming darker and sketchier. He was, in fact, one of the earliest artists to become interested in capturing the changing quality of nature by using light, rapid brush strokes.\r\nWhile experimenting with painting, Daubigny continued his interest in printmaking. In 1862 he participated in an exhibit funded by Cadart, a print publisher and dealer. The exhibition concerned artists who considered printmaking a legitimate art in itself, not a medium for simple reproduction. Cadart became Daubigny's exclusive publisher. Along with Corot, Daubigny also experimented with the clich\u00e9 verre technique. He continued to travel, in Brittany in 1867 and Spain in 1868-69. He was also supportive of other artists. As a member of the Salon jury of 1868, he was instrumental in having the works of Degas (q.v.), Morisot (q.v.), Pissarro (q.v.), Renoir (q.v.), Sisley (q.v.), Monet, and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bazille (1841-1870) accepted. Daubigny moved to London in 1870 to escape the Franco-Prussian War. There he introduced Pissarro and Monet to Paul Durand-Ruel, his art dealer, who had opened a gallery in London. Daubigny returned to Paris after the war, traveling around the French countryside until the end of his life.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1817", "death_year": "1878", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1}], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1951-07-26T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1855, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1855", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": ["Coast near Villerville"], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:37:33.922000"}}