Le pont sur l'Yonne (au soir) (Bridge on the Yonne (Evening))
Artist
Charles François Daubigny
(French, 1817–1878)
Date1875
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensions30.3 × 53.9 cm (11 15/16 × 21 1/4 in.)
framed: 61 × 83.8 × 14 cm (24 × 33 × 5 1/2 in.)
framed: 61 × 83.8 × 14 cm (24 × 33 × 5 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of Miss Frances M. Lincoln, in memory of Daniel Waldo Lincoln
Object number1928.32
Label TextThough Daubigny trained as a traditional landscape painter with his father, he settled in Barbizon in 1843 where he could paint outdoors. He distinguished himself from other Barbizon School artists by focusing on riverscapes. In 1857, he converted an old barge into a floating studio nicknamed Le Botin (the box) so he could paint from nature on the water. He continued this practice throughout his career. It is very possible this view of the Yonne, a tributary of the Seine River, was created on such a boat.
Daubigny met Claude Monet in London in the early 1870s during the Franco-Prussian War (July 1870 to May 1871) and the two traveled to the Netherlands together. The loose handling of the paint and the pink and blue streaked sky in this late work indicate Monet’s influence. Daubigny, in turn, inspired Monet to buy a studio boat in 1872.ProvenanceMiss Frances M. Lincoln, Worcester MAOn View
Not on view
