Riverbank in Spring

Two years after Daubigny's death in 1878, this panel was sold out of Auvers-sur-Oise, the village where he had lived and worked, or so its first American owner was told. According to the Boston collector Henry Clay Angell, the Paris dealer Aimé Diot had it from Casimir Lenfant, Daubigny's son-in-law, and sold it on to him in 1880. At the lower right it carries the name Daubigny and the date 1866.

It came to the Museum of Fine Arts with the rest of the Angell collection, given by his widow Martha in 1916 and fully accessioned in 1919. The museum now catalogues it as the work of an imitator of Daubigny, a hand outside his circle working in his manner, while the name and date remain on the panel. It is a wide panel, about 67 centimetres across.

The story of the son-in-law is known only from Angell, and the museum's note gives it as his account.