Marsh and Screen of Trees
Charles François Daubigny
1837–1878
- Medium
- Black chalk on tan laid paper discolored to dark tan
- Dimensions
- 31.3 × 47.8 cm (12 3/8 × 18 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- Chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksprints and drawinginorganic materialpaper (fiber product)
About
This drawing probably depicts a landscape in Longpré-les-Corps-Saints, in the Somme region in the north of France. In a letter of 1871, Daubigny wrote that his visit to Longpré had produced a "treasure chest of paintings with ponds." One of these paintings, The Marsh (1871), is in the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago (1894.1044).
