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Boats on the Seacoast at Etaples

1871
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 812
In October 1870 Daubigny and his family went to London to seek refuge from the Franco-Prussian War; this scene of beached fishing boats is thought to be the first painting he signed and dated upon his return to France in June 1871. The subject is one he had helped to popularize in the prior decade, when vanguard artists including Courbet, Jongkind, Whistler, Corot, and the young Monet also worked on the Channel coast.

Daubigny contributed Boats on the Seacoast at Etaples to an auction held in New York in 1872 to raise money for victims of the Great Chicago Fire.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Boats on the Seacoast at Etaples
  • Artist: Charles-François Daubigny (French, Paris 1817–1878 Paris)
  • Date: 1871
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: 13 1/2 x 22 7/8 in. (34.3 x 58.1 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1903
  • Object Number: 03.29
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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