Clair de lune à Valmondois (Moonlight at Valmondois)
Charles-François Daubigny
1801 to 1825
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 19 x 26.4 cm (7 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.) sheet: 23.6 x 31.3 cm (9 5/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2006.84.4
About the Artist
Charles-François Daubigny · 1817–1878
Charles-François Daubigny was born on February 15, 1817, in Paris into a family of artists, with his father, Edmé-François Daubigny, a classical landscape painter, and his uncle, Pierre Daubigny, a miniaturist, providing his initial artistic training. He further studied under Jean-Victor Bertin, Jacques Raymond Brascassat, and Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts, though he quickly moved bey...