Landscape (c. 1860): Art, History and Details

Landscape (c. 1860) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807–1876).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This is a rare watercolor by Narcisse Diaz, who worked primarily in oil. The view is likely from the forest of Fontainebleau, near the village of Barbizon. In the 1830s, Diaz and other painters like Jean-François Millet frequently painted there, out of doors, directly from nature.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape
• Date: c. 1860
• Creator attribution: Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807–1876)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink and graphite
• Dimensions: Sheet: 15 x 22.8 cm (5 7/8 x 9 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.389

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.

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