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(2) Karl [Charles-Pierre] Daubigny

(b Paris, 9 June 1846; d Auvers-sur-Oise, 25 May 1886). Painter and printmaker, son of (1) Charles-François Daubigny. He studied with his father and, like him, specialized in landscape painting. He made his début at the Salon in 1863 and continued to exhibit there until the year of his death, winning medals in 1868 and 1874. His earliest works are obviously influenced by his father, but he soon came to develop a more personal and sombre style. The forest of Fontainebleau or the coastline and landscape of Brittany and Normandy provided most of his subjects (e.g. the Return of the Fishing Fleet to Trouville, 1872; Aix-en-Provence, Mus. Granet, and the Banks of the Seine, 1880; Brest, Mus. Mun.). He also produced a number of landscape etchings, including several after his father’s paintings, two of which appeared in Frédéric Henriet’s C. Daubigny et son oeuvre gravé (Paris, 1875). Despite his considerable ability, Karl’s reputation has been rather eclipsed by that of his father, though he was nonetheless one of the most pleasing French landscape artists of the second half of the 19th century.

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