Nº 50
Reading edition
Charles François Daubigny FRENCH: 1817-1878
BANKS OF THE MARNE
Height, 13½ inches; length, 22½ inches
Extending across the foreground a quiet sheet of water, its surface broken by the reflections of trees beyond and the tones of the soft summer sky, extends away to the right to the middle distance, where it is bounded by a grassy slope partly covered by low trees. On the left rises a steep bank, crowned by a rank of poplars and lilies, and water weeds and rushes grow in profusion along the shore. A skiff with two occupants floats near the point of the bank, where a fisherman stands apparently waiting to enter the boat. Beyond, the view extends over a wooded country to a distant hillside which forms the horizon, and the lofty sky is covered with a thin veil of luminous mist with scattered low-drifting clouds.
Signed at the lower left, Daubigny, 1877.
Collection of Henry T. Cox, 1902.