As a central figure in the 19th-century French art world, Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878) is celebrated for creating poetic landscapes that explore the nuances of light and atmosphere. He was one of the earliest members of the Barbizon school to embrace printmaking. Working in an expressive, sometimes sketch-like style, Daubigny helped revive interest in etching as a creative medium, rather than a purely reproductive one. His printmaking practice influenced contemporaries such as Corot and prefigured the atmospheric freedom found in the work of artists like Whistler and Monet. Although celebrated as a Barbizon painter, Daubigny turned toward Normandy’s coastal scenes in his later years, creating works at Villerville that emphasize sea‑light and atmospheric nuance.
Etching on laid japon paper.Reference: Delteil 124 between i/ii and ii/iii.Almost certainly a state between Delteil's first and second, with the mo...
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