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Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña"Nymphs in the Forest" Oil on Canvas Signed in Gilded Framecirca 1850s
circa 1850s
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Narcisse Díaz de la Peña, "Nymphs in the Forest. Oil on canvas signed "Diaz" at lower left. In its original gilded wooden frame bearing the name "Diaz 1807-1876" on brass plate.
Narcisse Virgile Díaz de la Peña (Bordeaux, August 25, 1807 - Menton, November 18, 1876) was a French painter of the Barbizon school.
A Frenchman of Spanish descent, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña worked for a time in a porcelain factory before devoting himself entirely to painting. From his first participation in the Salon in 1831, he achieved great success with his depictions of gallant and highly imaginative scenes. Despite the success of his nymphs, the artist soon showed a weakness for landscapes and joined his friends Jules Dupré and Théodore Rousseau in Barbizon. He became a regular visitor to the forest of Fontainebleau where he revealed all his great skill in capturing, with a sparkling touch and the use of pure colors, the effects of light among the branches and in the undergrowth.
Diaz left a considerable and varied body of work, achieving an original synthesis of Barbizon landscape, oriental taste, and the frivolity of his time.
His landscapes-the essence of his work-are mainly the forest: the painter likes to paint forest interiors marked by the contrast between shadow and light, the shimmer of foliage, setting up his easel in Bas-Bréau, Apremont and in places decorated by lakes and glades near the village of Barbizon. His pastoral scenes express the carnal desire that permeates the bathers, the nudes, the nymphs and cupids, the lascivious and voluptuous women.
A genuine artist with a fiery temperament, Diaz's art is not imitation but creation. Admired by Monet and Monticelli, creator of light and color, the painter prefigures in his work a new way of capturing light. Tachist, intentionally blurs the details of form by overlapping colors and breaks down the effect of light by separating each brushstroke. A pre-Impressionist-from 1872 to 1874 his studies have all the hallmarks of emerging Impressionism-a virtuoso of the palette, Narcisse Diaz dazzles the eye with all the seductions of light and the charm of a great colorist.
This beautiful painting, which comes to us from a private French collection, belongs to one of the highest moments of Diaz's artistic production. In it, the forest and the carnal voluptuousness of its characters come together: at the edge of the forest, near a pond, rests a half-naked nymph, watching the water by swinging a foot. Barely covered by an oriental shawl, her off-white skin and red hair shine in contrast to the dark forest that invades her. Soft and opulent, in her the nymph and the odalisque merge. Behind her a winged putto watches her while on the other side two companions are busy observing a swan.
The painting is in its original canvas. It underwent professional restoration with cleaning and consolidation of a small, slightly damaged part of the canvas. During cleaning, the originality of the signature was verified, which was also photographed with a microscope.
For fans, Diaz's house can still be admired in Barbizon, overlooking the Grande rue.
Measurements
canvas 60 x50 cm
frame 80 x 70 cm
- Creator:Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (1807 - 1876, French)
- Creation Year:circa 1850s
- Dimensions:Height: 27.56 in (70 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80 cm)Depth: 3.15 in (8 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:tela cm 60 x 50Price: $9,729
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- Gallery Location:Pistoia, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2746215173112
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña
Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, French landscape and figure painter and founding member of the Barbizon School, was born in 1808 in Bordeaux to Spanish parents who had fled the Peninsular Wars. At 15 he began working as a ceramic painter in a porcelain factory, where he met Jules Dupré. Strongly influenced by Delacroix and the Romantics and attracted by medieval and Middle Eastern art, Diaz often in his early career painted exotic subjects. He showed his paintings in the Paris Salons of the 1830s and 1840s. Beginning in 1833 Diaz began to explore the forest of Fontainebleau, where he became a regular summer visitor in the following years, forming a close association with Théodore Rousseau and the other landscape painters of what came to be known as the School of Barbizon. Awarded a first-class medal at the Salon of 1848, he was appointed chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1851. In the early 1860s Diaz was welcoming to the Impressionists, especially Renoir, whom he met painting at Barbizon. At Etretat, where he summered in 1869, he painted seascapes in the company of Gustave Courbet. Diaz's work is in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre and the National Gallery in London.
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