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STILL LIFE WITH PEACOCK, FLOWERS, FRUIT AND JAPANESE VASE, AN EXTENSIVE PARK LANDSCAPE BEYOND
Auction: 12/16/2015 - 12/17/2015
Lot: 7
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Narcisse-Virgilio Diaz de la Pena AUCTION RECORDS
1807 Bordeaux, France - 1876 Menton, France. Known for: Exotic female figure and forest landscape painting.
Narcisse Diaz, a French landscape and figure painter and founding member of the avant-garde Barbizon school, was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. His parents were refugees from Joseph Bonaparte's... Read full biography
Narcisse Diaz, a French landscape and figure painter and founding member of the avant-garde Barbizon school, was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. His parents were refugees from Joseph Bonaparte's Spain. By the age of ten, he was a penniless orphan in the care of a priest at Bellevue near... Read full biography
Narcisse Diaz, a French landscape and figure painter and founding member of the avant-garde Barbizon school, was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. His parents were refugees from Joseph Bonaparte's Spain. By the age of ten, he was a penniless orphan in the care of a priest at Bellevue near Paris.(1). The young Narcisse, who had lost one of his legs to blood poisoning, was apprenticed as a pottery decorator in Paris at the age of 15, (2) which may account for his later predilection for bright... Read full biography
Narcisse Diaz, a French landscape and figure painter and founding member of the avant-garde Barbizon school, was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. His parents were refugees from Joseph Bonaparte's Spain. By the age of ten, he was a penniless orphan in the care of a priest at Bellevue near Paris.(1). The young Narcisse, who had lost one of his legs to blood poisoning, was apprenticed as a pottery decorator in Paris at the age of 15, (2) which may account for his later predilection for bright colors and his rather free draftsmanship.(3) . His handicap, and its impact on his mobility, were to be determinant in the course of his future career. As was a common practice, Narcisse learned to paint at the Louvre, where he was drawn to the works... Read full biography
Narcisse Diaz, a French landscape and figure painter and founding member of the avant-garde Barbizon school, was born in Bordeaux of Spanish parents. His parents were refugees from Joseph Bonaparte's Spain. By the age of ten, he was a penniless orphan in the care of a priest at Bellevue near Paris.(1). The young Narcisse, who had lost one of his legs to blood poisoning, was apprenticed as a pottery decorator in Paris at the age of 15, (2) which may account for his later predilection for bright colors and his rather free draftsmanship.(3) . His handicap, and its impact on his mobility, were to be determinant in the course of his future career. As was a common practice, Narcisse learned to paint at the Louvre, where he was drawn to the works of the colorists. His early inspiration came most notably from Correggio, whose Antiope he repeated and interpreted in... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assignee"Ramasseuses de Bois: Foret de Fontainebleau, Pres des Hauteurs du Jean de Paris", 1866
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