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Un vue dans le bois de Morvan, 1849
View in the Morvan Woods
Pencil with white heightening on
papier calque,
8
3
⁄
4
by
6
1
⁄
4
inches (
22
.
1
by
16
cm)
Redrawn in pencil on verso
The Morvan is a mountainous region to the northeast of the Massif Central,
which had great forests in the nineteenth century. Daubigny visited there
for the first time in
1847
. This drawing is preparatory for a wood engraving
published in
Le Magazine Pittoresque
(fig.
1;
June
1849
, p.
169
) to illustrate a
story on the region. A similar view is depicted in a painting titled
Le Charroi
des Billes de Bois en Automne
, c.
1850
(fig.
2;
Hellebranth
486
, Rosenbach
Foundation, Philadelphia). Henriet notes a Salon entry for
1848
called
Les
Souches; vue prise dans le Morvan
which may also relate to this work
Fig.
1
Fig.
2