Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña

(French, 1808–1876)

Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña was a French landscape painter that belonged to the Barbizon School. His paintings, like those of his friend and mentor Théodore Rousseau, often depicted the Forest of Fontainebleau near the town of Barbizon. Employing stark contrasts and textured brushstrokes, the artist’s scenes of dark tree lined paths evoke the mysterious quality of being alone in the woods. Born on August 20, 1807 in Bordeaux, France to Spanish parents, his youth was plagued by difficulty, orphaned at 10 years old, he lost his leg due to an infected reptile bite he sustained during adolescence. Pulling himself out of poverty, Diaz worked as a porcelain painter in Sèvres, before focusing on his career as an artist. By 1870, he had gained widespread admiration from both critics and collectors, as well as younger artists like Pierre-August Renoir who venerated Diaz. The artist died on November 18, 1876, in Menton, France. Today, his works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the National Gallery in London.

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19th-Century European and British Art

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Jasper Francis Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, George Inness, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Théodore Rousseau

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Bouquet de fleurs

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Bouquet de fleurs

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Mutter mit zwei Mädchen

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Mutter mit zwei Mädchen

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Nymphes et amours, scène champêtre idyllique, 1854

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Nymphes et amours, scène champêtre idyllique, 1854

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A forest landscape

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A forest landscape

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Trois Bohémiennes et trois enfants, 1874

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Trois Bohémiennes et trois enfants, 1874

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Trois Smyrniotes groupés dans un bois: Turkish...

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Trois Smyrniotes groupés dans un bois: Turkish...

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Paysanne au travail au bord de l'étang

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Paysanne au travail au bord de l'étang

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Clairière à Barbizon

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Clairière à Barbizon

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Orientales en forêt

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Orientales en forêt

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Baigneuses en forêt de Fontainebleau

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Baigneuses en forêt de Fontainebleau

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Tziganes en forêt de Fontainebleau

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Tziganes en forêt de Fontainebleau

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Sainte famille

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Sainte famille

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Au retour des champs

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Au retour des champs

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Jeune fille au hamac

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Jeune fille au hamac

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Mädchen mit Buch und Hund am Weiher

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Mädchen mit Buch und Hund am Weiher

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Landschaft mit drei Frauen

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Landschaft mit drei Frauen

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Blumenstillleben

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Blumenstillleben

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Scène d'une ville orientale

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Scène d'une ville orientale

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Forêt de Fontainebleau

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Forêt de Fontainebleau

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Les fagoteuses

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Les fagoteuses

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Les deux petites bohémiennes

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Les deux petites bohémiennes

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Forêt de Fountainebleau, 1873

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Forêt de Fountainebleau, 1873

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Foret et moutons

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Foret et moutons

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Mare en fôret, chêne demi-mort, 1871

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Mare en fôret, chêne demi-mort, 1871

Sale Date: October 23, 2008

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