Realism in France

Charles-François Daubigny

Washerwomen at the Oise River near Valmondois

1865

Oil on wood, 24 × 46 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington

A wide, quiet river with two small figures doing laundry at the water's edge.

• The panel is small, the size of a study, though it is signed and dated.
• Valmondois is on the Oise, north of Paris, the river Daubigny painted again and again.
• A low horizon gives most of the panel to sky and water.

Image: National Gallery of Art, Washington · Public domain (NGA Open Access)