A Woodland Pond

c. 1870

Charles-François Daubigny

Associated Names
Charles-François Daubigny

Artist, French, 1817 - 1878

The image depicts a natural landscape seen from a slightly elevated angle. The scene includes a body of water, trees, shrubs, and foliage. The foreground shows vegetation by the water, while the midground is filled with trees and shrubs. The artwork features loose and expressive brushwork with a monochromatic color palette of varying shades of gray and black on a beige or off-white background.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Artist's estate (Lugt 518; sale Paris, May 6-11, 1878); Seiferheld-Selz Fine Arts, Inc., New York; William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA, July 1973; gift to NGA, 1991.

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Exhibition History

1993

  • Drawings from the O'Neal Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, 29.

1996

  • Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Dessin de Daubigny

Wikidata ID

Q64539623

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