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Find the small pale roof among the dark fields, then trace the long bands of green that lead across the foreground.
The house named in the title occupies only a small part of this 1874 landscape. Daubigny surrounds it with dark fields and trees under a broad, pale sky. The modest building gives the view a human reference point, while the extended horizontal format keeps the larger countryside in command.
Oil on canvas · 92.5 × 185.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Barbizon School
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- Museum title
- House of Mère Bazot
- Artist
- Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878)
- Date
- 1874
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92.5 × 185.4 cm (36 3/8 × 73 in.); Framed: 125.8 × 216.6 × 12.7 cm (49 1/2 × 85 1/4 × 5 in.)
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.