The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 18, 2024

Landscape

Landscape

c. 1860
(French, 1807–1876)
France, 19th century
watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink and graphite
Sheet: 15 x 22.8 cm (5 7/8 x 9 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.389
Location: not on view

Description

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.
  • 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.
  • Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Referenced: cat. no. 41, p. 92-93, Reproduced: p. 93
  • 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).
  • {{cite web|title=Landscape|url=false|author=Narcisse Diaz de la Peña|year=c. 1860|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.389