Daubigny was more than twenty years older than Monet, and like him he painted a field with poppies a few times in the early 1870s. He too must have been fascinated by the effect of the bright red of the flowers in the landscape. Contemporaries had difficulties with the multicoloured painting for which this was a study. They preferred something grey.
Specifications
| Title | Field of Poppies near Vaux |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Oil on panel |
| Object type |
Painting
> Painting
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Width 66,5 cm Height 38 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Charles-François Daubigny
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| Accession number | 2592 (MK) |
| Credits | Acquired with the collection of D.G. Van Beuningen, 1958 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1958 |
| Creation date | in 1872 |
| Collector | Collector / D.G. van Beuningen |
| Internal exhibitions |
The Collection Enriched (2011) |
| External exhibitions |
Into the outside! The Weimar School of Painters, Barbizon and the departure to impressionism (2010) À la campagne: het Franse licht van Maris tot Monet (2022) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | France > Western Europe > Europe |
All about the artist
Charles-François Daubigny
Parijs 1817 - Parijs 1878
Charles François Daubigny's father was a painter and his first teacher. After a trip through Italy in 1836, he worked for some time as caretaker in the Louvre...
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