Forest Interior with Wood Gatherer, c. 1860
Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peñaexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Galeexpand_more 65.18.1
Not on Viewexpand_more
This sun-dappled view of the forest at Fontainbleau is animated by the tiny figure carrying a bundle of wood. Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña was a central figure among the colony of painters at Barbizon and first worked in Fontainebleau in the late 1830s. Thereafter, he was a prolific painter of the forest's dense glades and expansive moors; his work was a particularly important influence on the landscapes of the young Auguste Renoir.
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- Title
- Forest Interior with Wood Gatherer
- Artist Life
- 1807–1876
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 65.18.1
- Catalogue Raisonne
- See Pierre and Roland Miquel, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1807-1876), Paris, 2006, vol. 2, p. 209, no. 1347, repr.
- Curator Approved
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