The man who taught Monet how to look at trees. Two hours with Daubigny

Before the Impressionists existed, Daubigny was already doing what they would get famous for. Painting outside. Finishing the work outside. Not bringing it back to the studio to clean it up. Critics called his paintings "impressions" as an insult years before anyone used that word on Monet. He built a floating studio on a boat so he could paint rivers from the middle of them. Monet later did the exact same thing. This orchard in blossom is the kind of painting that made the next generation possible. No drama. No story. Just a guy standing in wet grass looking at trees doing what they do every