Attributed to Charles-François Daubigny

Charles-François Daubigny taught his son Karl to paint, and the son learned the manner closely. Karl, born in Paris in 1846, showed two landscapes at the Paris Salon when he was 17, one of them the Île de Vaux, an island in the Oise at Auvers, the village where his father had built a house and studio. For the rest of his short life he painted the same rivers, coasts and fields, often in much the same way, and some of his canvases have been mistaken for his father's. He died in 1886, at 40.

Attributed to Charles-François Daubigny is the label a museum uses when its specialists believe a picture is probably by the father himself, judging by its handling and its history, while no signature or document settles the question. It claims more than follower of, which means an unnamed painter working in his manner, and less than a plain attribution to Daubigny. In 2000 the Musée Daubigny at Auvers-sur-Oise hung father and son together in one exhibition, the first time their work had been shown side by side.