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Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, war ein französischer Maler.

Diaz de la Peñas Eltern waren Spanier, die er, als er zehn Jahre alt war, verlor. Daraufhin wurde er in Bellevue bei Paris von einem protestantischen Geistlichen erzogen.

Als er Infolge eines Schlangenbisses ein Bein verlor, bildete er sich aus eigener Kraft zum Maler aus, musste zuerst aber als Porzellanmaler seinen Unterhalt verdienen.

Unter dem Einfluss von Eugène Delacroix schloss er sich der romantischen Bewegung an und studierte daneben besonders Antonio da Correggio.

Er stellte zuerst im Pariser Salon landschaftliche Studien nach Motiven aus der Umgebung von Paris und dem Wald von Fontainebleau aus und legte auch später das Hauptgewicht auf die Landschaftsmalerei, deren Bilder er mit Nymphen, Amoretten und Zigeunern schmückte. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. August 1807 – 18. November 1876
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“Patience! They will come to it gradually! Rousseau has sold a landscape for five hundred francs; for my part, I have sold a view of Fontainebleau for seventy-five francs. And I am commissioned to ask you for companion sketches to your drawings. And this time, instead of twenty francs, they are to pay you twenty-five! (Millet replied resignedly: 'If I could only sell two drawings a week at that price all would go right!”

Diaz to Millet, c. 1845; as quoted by Albert Wolff, in Notes upon certain masters of the XIX century, - printed not published MDCCCLXXXVI (1886), The Art Age Press, 400 N.Y. (written after the exhibition 'Cent Chefs-d'Oeuvres: the Choice of the French Private Galleries', Petit, Paris / Baschet, New York, 1883, p. 20
In Paris Diaz had sold three drawings of his friend Millet for sixty francs, but Millet stayed still thoughtful, for he had to think of the morrow
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“What does it matter! [poverty], One of these days I shall have carriages and a golden crutch. My brush will win them for me.”

Quote of Diaz, c. 1830-34; as quoted by Arthur Hoeber in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1915, p. 139
Quotes of Diaz

“You cannot imagine the pleasure you are giving me. This woman and this infant [of an old picture, made in his early years] are my own family. The baby was in its cradle one fine summer day; the mother had fallen asleep beside it. In one hour I did the sketch from nature. It used to hang over my bed, and it cheered my awakening every day for years. Then arrived a morning when we were more in want of necessaries than usual. A dealer came along and offered me a hundred and fifty francs.... he insisted on taking that one in particular. As ill luck would have it, my rent was due next day. I was not in a position to be too particular. He gave me a bank note of one hundred francs, and ten hundred-sous pieces. I made him out a receipt, and he never perceived that he was carrying off a bit of my heart. Ah!, it was hard.”

Quote of Diaz, late 1860's, recorded by Albert Wolff, in Notes upon certain masters of the XIX century, - printed not published MDCCCLXXXVI (1886), The Art Age Press, 400 N.Y. (written after the exhibition 'Cent Chefs-d'Oeuvres: the Choiche of the French Private Galleries', Petit, Paris / Baschet, New York, 1883, p. 45-46
Albert Wolff, the interviewer, owned this little panel, painted by a young Diaz. It was fifteen centimeters big, and presented a baby lying in a cradle with the mother, guarding it. Wolff returned it to the old Diaz
Quotes of Diaz

“Your women bathing come from the cow house.”

Quote of Diaz to Millet, c. 1860's, viewing a Nude painting of Millet; as quoted by Arthur Hoeber in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1915, p. 17
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“You paint stinging-nettles, and I prefer roses.”

Diaz, quoted by Muther; cited in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty, Arthur Hoeber – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1915, p. 138
according to Richard Muther this was the characteristic expression which Diaz used to Millet
Quotes of Diaz

“At last, here is a new man [ Millet ], who has the knowledge which I would like to have, and movement, color, expression, too, - here is a painter!”

Quote of Diaz, 1844; as cited by fr:Alfred Sensier, in Jean-Francois Millet – Peasant and Painter, translated from the French original by Helena de Kay; publ. Macmillan and Co., London, 1881, p. 62
Diaz de la Peña gave this comment when he saw for the first time work of Millet: the painting 'The Riding Lessons' on the Paris' Salon of 1844
Quotes of Diaz

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