KARL DAUBIGNY (PARIS 1846 - AUVERS SUR OISE 1886) Cécile... Lot 41

KARL DAUBIGNY (PARIS 1846 - AUVERS SUR OISE 1886) Cécile Daubigny in the orchard in bloom at Auvers sur Oise Oil on canvas 115 x 78 cm Signed lower left Karl Daubigny (Faded and important restorations and repaints) Provenance: Arthur Tooth and sons, London Sale 19th century and European Art, Christie's, New York, 27 October 2004, lot 153 Bonham's sale, New-York, 3 May 2017, lot 55 Private collection Exhibitions: The Kasten Art Collection; "Destinations in paintings" USA, 2011, pages 76-80 Charles François Daubigny, Exhibition under the sponsorship of the French Embassy, produced and managed by the Musée des Beaux Arts de la ville de Reims; Yamanashi prefectural Museum of Art, October 20-December 16, 2018; Hiroshima Museum of Art January 3-March 24, 2019 Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art April 20-June 30, 2019; Kagoshima City Museum of Art July 19-September 1, 2019;Mie Prefectural Art Museum September 10-November 4, 2019; No. 101 reproduced on page 135 Karl Daubigny, in his early years still marked by the influence of his father, devoted himself to landscape painting, often imprinting the bucolic feeling of springtime nature. In the Daubigny family one is a painter from father to son since the eighteenth century, with the tradition of landscape painting influenced by the trip to Italy, for Karl Daubigny, the forest of Fontainebleau, and especially Normandy will be the grounds of his inspiration. The poetry of this painting, evoking the happiness of a day under the apple trees in bloom, reminds us of the extent to which the painters of the nineteenth century influenced the Impressionists a generation later.