Frontispiece from "Voyage en bateau"
For his frontispiece for the series "Voyage en bateau," devoted to anecdotes about life aboard his floating studio, Daubigny chose to focus on the flora and fauna one might find along the river's edge. Tall reeds frame the title, while frogs chase insects among the waterlilies below. Two preparatory drawings in the collection reveal how Daubigny progressed with his composition to arrive at this final design (2018.11.1 and (2018.11.2).
Artwork Details
- Title: Frontispiece from "Voyage en bateau"
- Series/Portfolio: Voyage en bateau
- Artist: Charles-François Daubigny (French, Paris 1817–1878 Paris)
- Printer: Imprimerie Delâtre, Paris
- Publisher: Cadart & Chevalier (French, active 1861–63)
- Date: 1862
- Medium: Etching; second state of three
- Dimensions: Plate: 7 3/16 × 5 1/4 in. (18.3 × 13.3 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 9 15/16 in. (36 × 25.3 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.269
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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