The Meadow at Graves, near Villerville

Daubignyʼs commitment to working outdoors, on land or from a boat, was much admired by the younger generation of artists who would come to be known as Impressionists. Le Pré des Graves is a meadow in the coastal community of Villerville in Calvados, Normandy, near where the Impressionists began to work in the 1870s. Daubigny found its forms alluring and depicted the windswept trees and long grasses in paintings and etchings, in daylight and moonlight, during the years 1874-75.