Wood Scene

Diaz reused and retooled his compositions, repeating many of the same compositional motifs, including a figure situated in a clearing in the forest.

By 1863, Diaz had met with contemporary painters Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who admired the older artist for his use of brilliant colors. The artist’s late landscapes may have been influential to the younger generation of painters including the Impressionists.