Charles-François Daubigny
Le Marais aux Canards

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Artist Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878)French, 1817–1878

CultureFrench

Titles

Le Marais aux Canards
The Duck Marsh

Date1862

Made inFrance

MediumSalted paper print from cliché verre

DimensionsImage: 6 × 7 1/4 in. (15.2 × 18.4 cm)
Sheet: 6 11/16 × 8 in. (17 × 20.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Shell Oil Company Foundation at "One Great Night in November, 1993"

Object number93.380

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionLike his fellow Pre-Impressionist painters Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, and Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny produced numerous clichés verre, photographic prints from hand-drawn negatives. Typically, the artist painted a sheet of glass with an opaque ground and then drew with a needle; the clear glass of the scratched lines allowed light to pass through to the photographic paper during printing. For Daubigny, the ease of drawing on such a surface allowed a spontaneity and fluidity of line akin to pen-and-ink drawing, a trait seen here especially in the rapidly sketched marginalia at the top of this image.
Provenance[Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania]; purchased by MFAH, 1993.
Exhibition History"The Glass Canvas", December 10 , 1996 through February 23, 1997, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

“Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 31– November 30, 2014.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

in pencil verso lower left corner:LD.133

in pencil verso center top and on image[reversed] lower left corner: Daubigny

verso lower right corner a stamp: H.M.P.

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