Landscape with half sky and half field of straw with trees in background and figures picking the crop with houses in backgroundCharles-François Daubigny: Harvest.
Charles-François Daubigny
Charles-François Daubigny: Harvest. Landscape with half sky and half field of straw with trees in background and figures picking the crop with houses in backgroundCharles-François Daubigny: Harvest. Public domain. Musée d’Orsay
Charles-François Daubigny (February 15, 1817-February 19, 1878) was known both as a painter and printmaker, mostly in the art of etching.  Born into a family of painters, he moved to Barbizon in 1843 and meeting Camille Corot and Gustave Courbet, his style changed from the traditional to working in the open air. He turned his boat into a studio and painted along the Seine and Oise, often around Auvers. He met Claude Monet in London in 1870 and later Paul Cézanne and influenced them both.