Villerville Seen from Le Ratier
Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
unframed: 54.2 × 116.2 cm · framed: 80 × 141.5 × 7.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of William G. Mather
Accession Number
1951.323
Tags
male
About this artwork
The town of Villerville on the Normandy coast appears just to the right of center in this expansive landscape by Daubigny, a pioneer of outdoor painting and a major influence on Claude Monet and the Impressionists. Daubigny introduced a new kind of natural landscape based on outdoor studies of light, water, and atmospheric conditions. Here, streaks of bright light along the horizon set off the dark masses of the rocky shore in the foreground.