Daubigny, Drawings for the Voyage en Bateau

23 . Un vue dans le bois de Morvan, 1849 View in the Morvan Woods Pencil with white heightening on papier calque, 8 3 ⁄ 4

by 6 1 ⁄ 4

inches ( 22 . 1 by 16 cm)

Redrawn in pencil on verso

The Morvan is a mountainous region to the northeast of the Massif Central, which had great forests in the nineteenth century. Daubigny visited there for the first time in 1847 . This drawing is preparatory for a wood engraving published in Le Magazine Pittoresque (fig. 1; June 1849 , p. 169 ) to illustrate a story on the region. A similar view is depicted in a painting titled Le Charroi des Billes de Bois en Automne , c. 1850 (fig. 2; Hellebranth 486 , Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia). Henriet notes a Salon entry for 1848 called Les Souches; vue prise dans le Morvan which may also relate to this work

Fig. 1

Fig. 2