Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña
French, 1807–1876
Forest Clearing
1869
Diaz belonged to a group of artists based during the mid-nineteenth century in the village of Barbizon, near the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau, south of Paris. Rather than painting idealized views of the countryside, he often chose locations like this clearing, presenting the French landscape in its ordinary, uncultivated state.
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 14 15/16 x 21 15/16 in. (37.9 x 55.7 cm) Frame: 2 1/4 x 21 x 28 3/16 in. (5.7 x 53.3 x 71.6 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.712 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Forest Clearing, 1869, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.712
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five, Supplement: South Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
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Provenance
Henry Seligman, New York (d. 1933, his sale, American Art Association, 29 Mar. 1934, no. 11, as Forest of Fontainebleau, sold to Scott & Fowles); [Scott & Fowles, New York, sold to Clark, 30 Mar. 1934]; Robert Sterling Clark (1934–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
