Marsh and Screen of Trees
n.d.
Charles François Daubigny French, 1817-1878
France
This drawing probably depicts a landscape in Longpré-les-Corps-Saints, in the Somme region in the north of France. In a letter of 1871, Daubigny wrote that his visit to Longpré had produced a "treasure chest of paintings with ponds." One of these paintings, The Marsh (1871), is in the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago (1894.1044).
Black chalk on tan laid paper discolored to dark tan