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Source Description
Diaz's training was limited to decorating porcelain and studying the Old Masters in the Louvre Museum. In 1835, he began to explore the Fontainebleau forest, where he encountered other artists associated with the Barbizon school. Diaz specialized in views of the interior of the forest. His pictures were distinguished by his mastery of color and were compared by one critic to a "pile of jewels." In this view of an ancient oak tree, he explores a range of rich russets, ochers, greens, and browns. This late work illustrates the rich, tapestry-like effects he created by dabbling and scumbling his pigments to blur the outlines, a technique that was admired by the impressionists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisely, who worked in the forest during the 1860s.
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Document identity
localId
10097
label
Forest of Fontainebleau, Autumn
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obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
10097
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Forest of Fontainebleau, Autumn
description
Diaz's training was limited to decorating porcelain and studying the Old Masters in the Louvre Museum. In 1835, he began to explore the Fontainebleau forest, where he encountered other artists associated with the Barbizon school. Diaz specialized in views of the interior of the forest. His pictures were distinguished by his mastery of color and were compared by one critic to a "pile of jewels." In this view of an ancient oak tree, he explores a range of rich russets, ochers, greens, and browns. This late work illustrates the rich, tapestry-like effects he created by dabbling and scumbling his pigments to blur the outlines, a technique that was admired by the impressionists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisely, who worked in the forest during the 1860s.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1871-1878 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1871
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
panel paintings
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1
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1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
78
height
64.7
dimensionsRaw
H: 30 11/16 x W: 25 1/2 in. (78 x 64.7 cm); Framed H: 44 1/8 x W: 39 1/8 x D: 5 5/8 in. (112.08 x 99.38 x 14.29 cm, 27.2 kg)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] In red at lower left: N. Diaz; [Date] In red at lower left: 71; [Seal] At center of panel on back in wax
with impression: F. V. (?)
med
oil on wood (mahogany) panel
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7221
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EAN
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442
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1
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0
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photo
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