| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Diaz de la Peña, Narciso Virgilio |
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(dyäs d lä p nyä´) (KEY) , 1808–76, French landscape and figure painter of the Barbizon school, b. Bordeaux, of Spanish parents. Mainly self-taught, he was influenced by Delacroix and Théodore Rousseau. He used a heavy, worked-over impasto, and the flickering light of his landscapes influenced Renoir’s work. Collections of his paintings are in the Louvre, the Museum of Reims, and the Metropolitan Museum (which has A Clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau). His Courtesans and Descent of the Bohemians are at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and his Valley Marsh at the Cincinnati Art Museum. | 1 | | See R. L. Herbert, Barbizon Revisited (1962). | 2 |
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