Sunset on the Coast at Villerville

1855, with later retouching by the artist

150.5 cm 93.4 cm

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Daubigny first visited Villerville in 1854 and returned each year thereafter. He built a lean-to hut for shelter and is known to have painted at least one of his large-scale paintings of the coast entirely on the spot. He wrote: I look at the sea, and it is so beautif...

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Purchased by William T. Walters (mode of acquisition unknown); inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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