Daubigny, Charles-François (1817–1878)

French landscape painter. He painted in the style of the Barbizon School, his views of quiet stretches of riverside becoming very popular. Bords de l'Oise (Musée et Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux) is typical.

He was a pupil of his father Edmé-François Daubigny (1789–1843), also a landscape painter, and later of Paul Delaroche. After a period of hack work, painting box tops and clock faces and producing commercial illustrations, he turned to landscape etching and then to painting in the spirit of the Barbizon painters, though he added to their study of nature the practice of executing complete pictures of considerable size in the open air.

After his success at the Salons of the 1850s, he constructed a houseboat studio in which he travelled along the Oise and the Seine, painting their quiet river reaches. His finest pictures are those of French riverside and rural scenes.

He visited London 1866 and again 1870–71; St Paul's from the Surrey Side (Tate Gallery, London) is a product of his visit.