![Charles-Francois Daubigny - Alders [1872] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vbTLB97DrKGTBm_tDAlzdHuYEhCnFg9acKwUwbC-9oAgh5zKeHezcOK_g8OtAQLbqx_ICAsvUXvBdhnues2IUwnmbMGXueKFgxm2RmVaZY7NhmxRwpd-SW1peUHAM=s0-d)
This scene has been identified as a lake in Picardie, Northern France. In 1872 Daubigny travelled to Villerville, a coastal town near Trouville in Normandy, and would have painted this view during the trip.
Daubigny (1817 - 1878) initially trained with his father, the classical landscape painter Edmond-François Daubigny (1789-1843). Soon after he was apprenticed to an engraver, and he was later to publish two albums of etchings in 1850 and 1851. During this period he sketched in the environs of Paris and the Forest of Fontainebleau, and in 1835 he travelled to Italy. In 1838 he made his debut at the Paris Salon, where he regularly exhibited landscapes for the rest of his life.
[National Gallery of Art, Washington - Oil on wood, 33 x 57.1 cm]
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