The Creek

1863

The landscape in Daubigny's painting is bathed in a soft, glowing light that reflects off the still water in the foreground. The composition leads the viewer’s eyes along the winding river toward a line of trees on the horizon. The hazy atmosphere is punctuated by a few sharper details, like the boat that nestles against the riverbank in the center of the picture.

Medium	oil on panel
Dimensions	11 13/16 x 19 in. (30 x 48.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.693
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Charles-François Daubigny, The Creek, 1863, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.693

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963. 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. Fidell-Beaufort, Madeleine, and Janine Bailly-Herzberg. Daubigny. Paris: Geoffroy-Dechaume, 1975. Robert Hellebranth.. Charles-François Daubigny, 1817-1878.. Morges: Editions Matute.. 1976.. 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

George I. Seney (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 11–13 Feb. 1891, no. 288); Joseph Eastman, New York; sale, American Art Association, New York, 16 Jan. 1923, no. 17, ill.; [Scott & Fowles, New York, sold to Clark, 10 Apr. 1929]; Robert Sterling Clark (1929–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.