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An Apple Orchard

Daubigny devoted several canvases to apple orchards, generally favoring cheerful scenes of blossoming trees in spring rather than the melancholic palette of autumn bounty seen here. The artist deploys a familiar compositional strategy for his orchard scenes: a screen of trees in the middle ground that permits only a hint of spatial recession in the breaks between leafy branches. The full trees and vast, bird-dotted sky fill the large canvas and dwarf the figures of three apple pickers, one of whom gathers the ample harvest into her skirts.

Artist: Charles-François Daubigny, French, 1817-1878
Medium: Oil on glue-lined canvas
Place Made: France
Dates: 1871-1878
Dimensions: 51 x 64 in. (130.2 x 162.6 cm) Frame: 61 x 74 1/2 in.
Signature: Signed lower right: "Daubigny"
Collections: European Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 02.252
Credit Line: Gift of A. Augustus Healy
Image: Overall, 02.252.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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