The Boat in Conflans (1866): Art, History and Details

The Boat in Conflans (1866) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878).

The work and its context

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

Closely associated with the Barbizon school artists, Daubigny began his career painting landscapes in the Forest of Fontainebleau. His love of water scenes led him to portray innumerable sites along the rivers of France. In 1857, Daubigny launched his "botin," the studio boat that fostered the development of his plein-air aesthetic by enabling him to paint while traveling the French waterways, such as the Oise, the Marne, and the Seine rivers. This etching of the artist in his "floating studio" is from Voyage en Bateau, an album of etchings recording Daubigny’s river travels with his friend Camille Corot.

Object facts

• Title: The Boat in Conflans
• Date: 1866
• Creator attribution: Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching on chine collé
• Dimensions: Sheet: 26.9 x 36.7 cm (10 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.); Platemark: 11 x 13.8 cm (4 5/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1920.666

Collection credit

Gift of Ralph King, the Frederick Keppel Memorial

Further reading listed by the museum

• McK., W. Mc.C. "Gift to Keppel Memorial." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 8 (1920): 120.

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