Le Châtaignier de Neuve-Celle, au bord du lac de Genève, after Daubigny
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/8 × 7 1/16 in. (13 × 18 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.36.57
Tags
Art Historical Context
Welcome to *Le Châtaignier de Neuve-Celle, au bord du lac de Genève*, a delicate wood engraving from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints collection. Created anonymously after the French landscape master Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878), this intimate print (5 1/8 × 7 1/16 in.) captures a chestnut tree standing sentinel along the shores of Lake Geneva at Neuve-Celle. Amidst lush foliage, quaint houses, and figures of men and women, it evokes the tranquil beauty of the Swiss-French border region during Daubigny's era (dated 1835–78). Daubigny, a key figure in the Barbizon ...
About the Artist
Anonymous|Charles-François Daubigny
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...