Charles Francois Daubigny (1817-1878)(b paris, 15 feb 1817; d paris, 19 feb 1878). Painter and printmaker. He studied under his father Edmond-Fran?ois Daubigny and in 1831–2 also trained with Jacques-Raymond Brascassat. At an early age he copied works by Ruisdael and Poussin in the Louvre, while also pursuing an apprenticeship as an engraver. At this time he drew and painted mainly at Saint-Cloud and Clamart, near Paris, and in the forest of Fontainebleau (1834–5). In 1835 he visited several Italian cities and towns, including Rome, Frascati, Tivoli, Florence, Pisa and Genoa. He returned to Paris in 1836 and worked for Fran?ois-Marius Granet in the painting restoration department of the Louvre. In 1840 he spent several months drawing from life in Paul De la Roche’s studio, although his early works were much more heavily influenced by 17th-century Dutch painters, whom he copied in the Louvre, than by De la Roche’s work. |
