Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878)
Le Printemps - Springtime
Etching, 1857
Unsigned as Issued
Image Size: 4 3/4" x 9 5/8"
Reference: Melot D 89

Daubigny's painting of the same theme was shown at the Salon of 1857 and then entered the national collections at the Louvre. The etching was done for the publication L'Artiste and went through several extensive printings. The commentary in L'Artiste remarks significantly:

"Daubigny is not only one our leading landscapists, he also occupies a high rank amoung our engravers using etching. He himself has reproduced - and one can see with what a luminous and vivid needle - his landscape of Le Printemps, one of the canvases in the Salon where nature most freely breathes in all its freshness and its freedom. Daubigny has translated himself as a poet, or rather he has made, with respect to his painting, an original and new work".