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In the progress which landscape painting had made, there were hosts of younger painters, each adding a particle of truth, each making an advance in technical skill and daring, and Daubigny profited by it all.
Without having to go far to hunt up their subjects, the Forest of Fontainebleau lying near Barbison offered to painters much that was not available within so small a radius elsewhere. Diaz was here already when, in 1849, Jacque and Millet arrived upon the scene, and at more or less frequent intervals, and for more or less lengthy stays, there came Corot, Dupré and Daubigny.
Oil paintings hung above the taps and doorways. Over the heads of the business men standing or leaning at the bar, with derbies or silk hats shoved back from their foreheads, Frederick saw a delicious woman's figure by Courbet; sheep by Troyon; a bright seascape with clouds by Dupré; several choice pieces by Daubigny, sheep on a dune landscape, a pool reflecting the full moon hanging low over the horizon and two cud-chewing oxen; a Corot a tree, a cow, water, a glorious evening sky; a Diaz a pond, old birches, light reflected in the water; a Rousseau a gigantic tree in a storm; a Millet a pot with turnips, pewter spoons and knives; a dark portrait by Delacroix; another Courbet, a landscape; a small Bastien-Lepage, a girl and a man in the grass with a great deal of light; and many other excellent pictures.
Look, D A B N E Y not very plain, it's true, but there are all the letters." "That's just it, Mr. Ford; them AIN'T all the letters that ORTER be there. I've allowed to write it D A B N E Y to save time and ink, but it orter read DAUBIGNY," said Uncle Ben, with painful distinctness. "But that spells d'Aubigny!" "It are." "Is that your name?" "I reckon." The master looked at Uncle Ben doubtfully.
He had received no instructions from Daubigny regarding a second sale; so when the question was repeated he hesitated, and his timidity getting the better of him, he replied: "Five hundred francs." "Don't want it; wouldn't take it as a gift," said the dealer. "I like the other better.
And what beautiful things in the course of the handling! the old French Academician and his garden, on the rive gauche, for example; or the summer afternoon on the upper Seine, with its pleasure-boats, and the red parasol which finally tells all a picture drawn with the sparkle and truth of a Daubigny, only the better to bring out the unwelcome fact which is its center.
Trevor was flattered: Lady Delville drew herself up. "It is a small party at the duchess's," said the latter; "merely to meet the Duke and Duchess of C ." "Ah, few people are capable of giving a suitable entertainment to the royal family." But surely none more so than the Duchess of Daubigny her house so large, her rank so great!"
Bastien-Lepage has a preparatory sketch for Les Foins. Indeed, the Mesdag Museum is rich in frottis, painted-in pictures, by such men as Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz, Vollon, Millet, Dupré. As we admire the etchings of Mari Bauer, it was a new pleasure to see half a dozen of his paintings, chiefly scenes in the Orient.
Trevor was flattered: Lady Delville drew herself up. "It is a small party at the duchess's," said the latter; "merely to meet the Duke and Duchess of C ." "Ah, few people are capable of giving a suitable entertainment to the royal family." "But surely none more so than the Duchess of Daubigny her house so large, her rank so great!"
On wall B are two canvases by Corot, both badly placed, one of which is typically poetic and beautiful. The examples by Daubigny and Rousseau on wall C are not satisfying. On wall D the two Monticellis suggest the source of some of the rich qualities of the work of Keith and similar American painters.
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