The site of this river landscape has not yet been identified. It may have been painted near Auvers from the artist's floating studio or during a trip to northeast France that Daubigny made on his boat after mid-summer 1864.
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Title:A River Landscape with Storks
Artist:Charles-François Daubigny (French, Paris 1817–1878 Paris)
Date:1864
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:9 1/2 x 17 5/8 in. (24.1 x 44.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Object Number:14.40.818
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): Daubigny 1864
William Schaus, New York (until d. 1892; his estate 1892–96; his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, February 28, 1896, no. 7, as "Landscape, with Stork," for $4,200, to Farrington); J. C. Farrington (from 1896); Mrs. S. D. Warren, Boston (until 1903; her estate sale, American Art Association, New York, January 8–9, no. 69, for $9,700, to Knoedler for Altman); Benjamin Altman, New York (1903–d. 1913)
Bristol, R.I. Bristol Art Museum. August 1–22, 1964, no catalogue?
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Barbizon: French Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century," February 4–May 10, 1992, no catalogue.
Albany. New York State Museum. "French Painters of Nature; The Barbizon School: Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 22–August 22, 2004, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Making Pottery Art: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of French Ceramics," February 4, 2014–March 15, 2015, no catalogue.
THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT, BY TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION BY THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.
B[ryson]. B[urroughs]. "Modern Paintings in the Altman Bequest." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 9 (December 1914), pp. 253, 255, ill.
Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 27.
Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, XIX Century. New York, 1966, p. 97, ill., remark that this is one of Daubigny's finer landscapes, noting that the "spontaneity of touch resembles the work of Jongkind, and the liveliness of its tone recalls the style of Diaz".
Robert Hellebranth. Charles-François Daubigny, 1817–1878. Morges, Switzerland, 1976, p. 153, no. 474, ill., as "Paysage avec des cigognes".
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 421, ill.
This work may not be lent, by terms of its acquisition by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Charles-François Daubigny (French, Paris 1817–1878 Paris)
1860
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