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Charles-Fran�ois Daubigny was born in Paris in 1817. One of the leading artists of the Barbizon School, Daubigny is a significant fore-runner of Impressionism. Because of the impressionistic nature of his oils, which seemed unfinished to the tastemakers of the day, his works were criticized as "rough sketches". Charles Chaplin, Daubigny Etching, 1862 B�raldi 3 Daubigny was a very active printmaker, creating 127 etchings, aquatints, and drypoints, 18 clich�s-verre, and 4 lithographs. I have six of his etchings to share with you. Charles-Fran�ois Daubigny, Le marais Etching, 1851 Delteil/Melot 84 The earliest etching I have by Daubigny is Le marais, dating from 1851 though my copy is from the 1874 printing for the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Although this is already no. 84 in the catalogue raisonn� of Daubigny's etchings, it is actually right at the beginning of his true career as an original etcher, many of the earlier works being illustrative plates of little significance. I