At the age of 17, Charles-François Daubigny left for Italy and spent a year visiting the great Roman museums. Back in France, he was employed in the restoration of paintings at the Louvre Museum. Fortunately, around 1844, his reputation as a painter began to assert itself and he was able to devote himself ...
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At the age of 17, Charles-François Daubigny left for Italy and spent a year visiting the great Roman museums. Back in France, he was employed in the restoration of paintings at the Louvre Museum. Fortunately, around 1844, his reputation as a painter began to assert itself and he was able to devote himself more broadly to his art.
His paintings are painted entirely from nature with the freedom of execution that was found at that time among the initiators of Impressionism. Like Monet, he was attracted by the representation of the liquid element: he actually had a barge built that allowed him to sail along the waves and stop when the motif interested him.
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