Narcisse Diaz de la Peña - Children in a Garden [c.1840]

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña - Children in a Garden [c.1840], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (August 25, 1807 – November 18, 1876) was a French painter. Diaz was born in Bordeaux to Spanish parents. Díaz exhibited many pictures at the Paris Salon, and was decorated in 1851. During the Franco-German War he went to Brussels. After 1871, his works became fashionable and rose gradually in the estimation of collectors, and he worked constantly and successfully. Díaz's finest pictures are his forest scenes and storms, and it is on these that his fame rests. In 1876, while visiting his son's grave, he caught a cold. He went to Menton in an attempt to recover his health, but on November 18 of that year he died.

[Oil on canvas, 24 x 32 cm]