Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña french , 1807 – 1876 . The Clearing in the Forest ( Clairière en automne ) 1876 Oil on panel 7 1 ⁄ 8 x 11 inches ( 18 . 1 x 27 . 9 cm) Signed and dated lower left provenance Galerie Georges Petit, Paris Collection L. Sarlin, Paris, until 1918

Sarlin Collection sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, (scheduled for 2 Mar 1918 , sale was cancelled, and collection sold between 1919 and 1921 ) Galerie John Levy, Paris Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, February 26 , 1944 , lot 31 Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, December 1 , 1971 , lot 3 Private collection. literature Miquel, Rolande and M. Pierre. Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint . Paris: ACR Edition International, 2006 , no. 174 , Vol II, p. 29 . Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña was one of the foremost figures of the first generation of Barbizon artists. He, along with Rousseau, Millet, Daubigny, Corot, Dupré, Jacques and Troyon, established the Barbizon movement that drew hundreds of artists to the forest of Fontainebleau over the course of the nineteenth century. Diaz himself was born to Spanish immigrant parents in 1807 in Bordeaux. Originally a figurative painter, he began to exhibit pure