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View in Fontainebleau Forest: Evening

Oil Painting
ca. 1840-ca. 1850 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Diaz De La Peña, Narcisse Virgile (artist)
Place of origin
Forest of Fontainebleau (painted)

Ina woodland lanscape with beams of sunlight falling on the trees, a female figure wearing a bright red shawl is bending to the ground, perhaps to pick up flowers.


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
Titles
  • View in Fontainebleau Forest: Evening
  • Crépuscule en sous-bois
Materials and techniques
Oil on panel
Oil Paint
Panel
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'View in Fontainebleau Forest: Evening', Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, France, 19th century.
Physical description
Ina woodland lanscape with beams of sunlight falling on the trees, a female figure wearing a bright red shawl is bending to the ground, perhaps to pick up flowers.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 15.8cm
  • Estimate width: 25.7cm
Dimensions taken from C.M. Kauffmann, Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, II. 1800-1900, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973
Styles
French School
Barbizon School
Marks and inscriptions
'N. Diaz' (Signed by the artist, lower left; the N is backwards)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides
Object history
Bought by Constantine Alexander Ionides £120, on 17 June 1882 (his inventory, private collection); bequeathed to the Museum in 1900.
Subject depicted
Landscape
Place depicted
Forest of Fontainebleau
Bibliographic references
  • Tomson, A., Jean François Millet and the Barbizon School, 1903, repr. facing p. 156.
  • Kauffmann, C.M., Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, II. 1800-1900, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, p. 31, cat. no. 66.
  • P. and R. Miquel, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1807-1876), Paris, 2006, No. 81, p. 16.
  • B.S. Long, Catalogue of the Constantine Alexander Ionides collection. Vol. 1, Paintings in oil, tempera and water-colour, together with certain of the drawings, London, 1925, p. 24.
  • The Barbizon School, London: Victoria and labert Museum, 1965, p. 17, pl. 9.
  • Memorial catalogue of the French and Dutch loan collection, Edinburgh : Printed at the University Press by T. & A. Constable & Published by D. Douglas, 1888 1162
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CAI.62

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Record createdJune 19, 2003
Record URL
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