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Charles-François Daubigny Quotes

1817–1878 France

Charles-François Daubigny (15 February 1817 – 19 February 1878) was a leading landscape painter of the French Barbizon school, and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

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Speak to me no more of the old masters. Not one of them can stand up to this sturdy fellow [=Courbet ].

Adieu, adieu, I am going to see up there [after death] whether friend Corot has found me any new subjects for landscape painting.

My travelling companion [= Corot] has just abandoned me. He's a perfect Father Joy, this Father Corot. He is altogether a wonderful man, who mixes jokes in with his very good advice.

[I] preferred paintings full of daring to the nullities welcomed into every Salon.

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