Landscape
Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807–1876)
c. 1860
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink and graphite
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 15 x 22.8 cm (5 7/8 x 9 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This is a rare watercolor by Narcisse Diaz, who worked primarily in oil. The view is likely from the forest of Fontainebleau, near the village of Barbizon. In the 1830s, Diaz and other painters like Jean-François Millet frequently painted there, out of doors, directly from nature.
