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Landscape
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About this work
This is a rare watercolor by Narcisse Diaz, who worked primarily in oil. The view is likely from the forest of Fontainebleau, near the village of Barbizon. In the 1830s, Diaz and other painters like Jean-François Millet frequently painted there, out of doors, directly from nature.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLandscape, c. 1860. Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807–1876). Watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink and graphite; sheet: 15 x 22.8 cm (5 7/8 x 9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.389
