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Villerville Seen from Le Ratier

Villerville Seen from Le Ratier

1855
(French, 1817–1878)
France, 19th century
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.)
Bequest of William G. Mather 1951.323
Location: 220 19th Century European

Did You Know?

Daubigny turned his boat, Le Botin (Little Box), into a studio where he painted while cruising the Seine, Marne, and Oise rivers in France.

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.
  • 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
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    Katalog französischer und altspanischer Meister: permanente Ausstellung von Werken erstklassiger deutscher, französischer, altenglischer und altspanischer Meister. Galerie Heinemann; (München). 1914. Reproduced: unpaginated
    Francis, Henry S. "Bequest of William G. Mather: Paintaings." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXVIII no. 8 (October, 1951):197-198. Mentioned: p. 198
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” September 26, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    "Mather Bequest to Cleveland." Art Digest 26 (October 15, 1951): 10. Mentioned: P. 10
    Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. 1955. Reproduced: p. 161, vol. 2
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 496 archive.org
    Gregg, Richard N. "Charles Francois Daubigny, Forerunner of Impressionism." Antiques 85 (May 1964): 548-551. Reproduced: P. 550
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 169 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 169 archive.org
    Fidell-Beaufort, Madeleine, Charles François Daubigny, and Janine Bailly-Herzberg. Daubigny. Paris, France: Geoffroy-Dechaume, 1975. Reproduced: p. 122, fig. 38
    Hellebranth, Robert. Charles-François Daubigny: 1817-1878. Morges, Switzerland: Matute, 1976.
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 209 archive.org
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: P. 52
    Hellebranth, Robert and Anne Hellebranth. Charles-François Daubigny, 1817-1878. France: [publisher not identified], 1996.
    D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Reproduced: p. 67
    Burgess, Margaret E., Frances Fowle, and Richard Kendall. The Draw of the Normandy Coast: 1860-1960. Portland, ME: The Portland Museum of Art, 2012. Reproduced: p. 22, fig. 6
    Clarke, Michael, Frances Fowle, Lynne Ambrosini, Maite van Dijk, Nienke Bakker, and René Boitelle. Inspiring Impressionism: Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh. Edinburgh, Scotland: National Galleries of Scotland, 2015. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 84-85, no. 75
  • The Draw of the Normandy Coast. Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (organizer) (June 14-September 2, 2012).
    Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
    Louis Martinet, Boulevard des Italiens. Paris, France (January 1862).
    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).
    First American Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Charles François Daubigny. Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI; Gallery of Modern Art, New York, NY (1964).
    Barbizon Revisited. 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).
    Cleveland Art Loan Exposition under the Auspices of the Cleveland School of Art. Kinney and Levan Building, Cleveland, OH (1913).
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