Le berger et la bergère

Etching and drypoint, 1874, signed on plate, below the image, lower left ‘Ch. Daubigny del et sc.’, lower ‘L’Art’; lower right ‘F. Liénard Imp. Paris’. Fifth state, of VII (Melot) or VIII (Delteil), as published in L’Art. Excellent condition.

The etching depicts a Shepherd and Shepherdess sitting under a tree with their sheep while the forest stretches out behind them.

Charles Francois Daubigny was a painter born in 1817 in Paris, France. A leading member of the Barbizon School, Daubigny rebelled against the conventions of his era by leaving his urban studio and traveling out into the countryside to paint directly from nature. His prints of peaceful pastoral scenes were especially popular among middle class city-dwellers who seldom got to experience such views in person.

References

Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIXe et XXe siècles), 122.V/VIII; Melot, L'Oeuvre gravé de Boudin, Corot, Daubigny…, 122 V/VII.