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This picturesque village on the river is Gloton, a hamlet on the Seine just upstream from Bennecourt and across the river from Bonnières. Daubigny painted many scenes using this setting (see Hellebranth 76, 77, 78 and 80). It was also depicted by Monet and Cézanne.
The modern quality of Un village près de Bonnières evoked harsh criticism when it was exhibited at the Salon of 1861. However, it revealed Daubigny's awareness of the beginings of a new era in painting - Impressionism, that would announce itself to the world twelve years later. The conservative critics who reviewed the 1861 Salon accused Daubigny of having no style. Théophile Thoré asked "is this village made of cardboard or of tin?" But as Gary Tinterow has so aptly stated, "It goes without saying that it was Daubigny's independence from convention and his informal approach to execution that interested young painters such as Monet and Renoir, and Pissarro, too." (Origins of Impressionism, exh. cat., 1994, p. 366).
The modern quality of Un village près de Bonnières evoked harsh criticism when it was exhibited at the Salon of 1861. However, it revealed Daubigny's awareness of the beginings of a new era in painting - Impressionism, that would announce itself to the world twelve years later. The conservative critics who reviewed the 1861 Salon accused Daubigny of having no style. Théophile Thoré asked "is this village made of cardboard or of tin?" But as Gary Tinterow has so aptly stated, "It goes without saying that it was Daubigny's independence from convention and his informal approach to execution that interested young painters such as Monet and Renoir, and Pissarro, too." (Origins of Impressionism, exh. cat., 1994, p. 366).