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Charles-François Daubigny
French, 1817–1878
The Creek
1863
The landscape in Daubigny's painting is bathed in a soft, glowing light that reflects off the still water in the foreground. The composition leads the viewer’s eyes along the winding river toward a line of trees on the horizon. The hazy atmosphere is punctuated by a few sharper details, like the boat that nestles against the riverbank in the center of the picture.
Image Caption
Charles-François Daubigny, The Creek, 1863, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.693
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
11 13/16 x 19 in. (30 x 48.3 cm)
Object Number
1955.693
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Fidell-Beaufort, Madeleine, and Janine Bailly-Herzberg. Daubigny. Paris: Geoffroy-Dechaume, 1975. Robert Hellebranth.. Charles-François Daubigny, 1817-1878.. Morges: Editions Matute.. 1976.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
George I. Seney (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 11–13 Feb. 1891, no. 288); Joseph Eastman, New York; sale, American Art Association, New York, 16 Jan. 1923, no. 17, ill.; [Scott & Fowles, New York, sold to Clark, 10 Apr. 1929]; Robert Sterling Clark (1929–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.