International studio (30.1906/1907(1907))

The Alexander Young Collection—II. The Daubignys

and the colour-scheme is agreeable and quite
simple. It is a picture which only Daubigny
amongst the Barbizon men could have painted,
and is of that type which has had considerable
influence on the plein-air school of to-day.
Especially fine are the tones in the sky, which
appear again in the reflection in the water. Like
James Maris, Daubigny thoroughly understood the
relation of the colour and tones of the sky to
those of the landscape, and it may here be noted

that Maris was more influenced by Daubigny than
by any other member of the Barbizon group.
Painted in 1875, three years before he died, The
Drinking Place is one of the last important works
which Daubigny executed, for the illness which
attacked him in 1874, and from which he died in
1878, seriously affected both the number and
quality of his works. Another canvas, very char-
acteristic of the artist, is The Edge of the Pool
(supplement). It is treated somewhat more broadly


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BY C. F. DAUBIGNY