Cambronne's Word
Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878)
1861
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Plate: 13.7 × 18.7 cm (5 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 21.8 × 30 cm (8 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In order to paint the river landscape scenes which accorded so well with his temperament and taste, Daubigny decided to build a floating studio that could be positioned to afford the best points of view and to capture the varied effects of natural light. The etchings that resulted in the series The Boat Trip are an early example of the plein-air aesthetic, the practice of working out of doors, which would be wholeheartedly embraced by the Impressionists.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
