Country Road Landscape with Trees (recto); Landscape with Trees (verso)
1860s or 1870s
Medium
Black chalk on pink-gray faded laid paper overlaid wth white wash, probably from a sketch pad.
Dimensions
18 3/8 x 11 7/8 in. (46.6 x 30.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.598
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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...