Narcisse Diaz de la Peña

Diaz, Narcisse
Diaz de la Peña, Narcisse Virgile

French, 1807 - 1876

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French painter (1807-1876)

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Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, The Frog Pond, 1876, oil on wood, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2015.19.27

The Frog Pond

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña · 1876 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2015.19.27

A path enclosed almost entirely with trees stretches into a dense, sun-dappled forest before us in this horizontal landscape painting. The trunks, leaves, undergrowth, and part of the path closest to us are painted in shadowy tones of ash brown, brick red, and muted green. Sunlight from the left burnishes the canopies of trees in the middle distance to a muted gold. A patch of azure-blue sky is glimpsed above that copse. Deep in shadow, a woman wearing a dark garment and white cap sits huddled at the foot of a tree on the left. The path becomes deeply shadowed again as it moves into the far distance. The artist signed and dated the lower left, “N. Diaz, '74.”
Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, In the Forest, 1874, oil on wood, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.418

In the Forest

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña · 1874 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.136.418

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, Forest Scene, 1874, oil on wood, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.4

Forest Scene

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña · 1874 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1949.1.4

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, The Edge of the Forest at Les Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau, 1868, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund, 2000.37.1

The Edge of the Forest at Les Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña · 1868 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2000.37.1

Bibliography

1856

  • Silvestre, Théophile. Histoire des artistes vivants, français et étrangers. Paris, 1856.

1877

  • Ballu, R. "Les Artistes contemporains--Diaz." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 40 (1877): 290ff.

1996

  • Heilmann, Christoph, Michael Clarke, and John Sillevis. Corot, Courbet, und di Maler von Barbizon: "Les Amis de la nature". Exh. cat. Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1996: 222-237, 470-471.

2000

  • Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 239.