Art, literature & historyNarcisse Virgilio Díaz
1807–1876
Selected artwork
After the Bath
1860 - 1876
Rijksmuseum
Other names (48)
de la pena, narcisse diaz, Diaz, Diaz de la Pena, diaz de la pena narcisse-virgilio, diaz de la pena narcisso virgilio, diaz n., diaz narc., genannt Narcisse Diaz Virgilis Narcisso Diaz de la Pena, gen. Narcisse Diaz Narcisso Diaz de la Pena, Narcis Diaz de la Pena, Narciso Diaz de La Pena, Narciso Virgilio Diaz de La Peña, Narciss Diaz, Narciss Diaz de la Peña, narcisse de la pena diaz, Narcisse Diaz, Narcisse Diaz de la Pena, Narcisse v. Diaz de La Pena, Narcisse-Virgele Diaz de La Pena, Narcisse Virgile Dias de la Pena, Narcisse Virgile Diaz, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Pea, Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, narcisse virgilio de la pena, Narcisse Virgilio Diaz, Narcisse Virgilio Diaz de la Pena, Narcisse Virgille Diaz de la Peña, Narcisso Diaz, Narcisso Diaz de la Peña, narcisso v. diaz de la pena, narcisso virg. diaz, Narcisso Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Narcisso Virgilio Diaz, Narcisso Virgilio Diaz de la Peña, Narcis Virgilio Diaz de la Penne, narziso virgilio diaz de la pena, Narzisse Diaz, narzisse virgilie diaz, Narzisso Virgilio Diaz de la Pena, Narziss Virgilio Diaz de La Penna, narzis virgilio diaz, N. Diaz, N. Diaz de la Pena, N. V. Diaz, N. V. Diaz de La Pena, Vergilio Narcisso Diaz, Virgilio Narcisse Diaz de la Pena, Virgilio Narcisso Diaz de la Peña
Biography
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (20 August 1807 – 18 November 1876) was a French painter of the Barbizon school.
Diaz was born in Bordeaux to Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his early years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live with some friends of his mother. The bite was poorly dressed, and ultimately he lost his leg. However, as it turned out, the wooden stump that replaced his leg became famous.
At fifteen he entered the studios at Sèvres, first working on the decoration of porcelain and later turning to painting. Turkish and Oriental scenes attracted him, and he took to painting Eastern figures dressed in richly coloured garments; many of these paintings remain extant. He also spent much time at Barbizon, near the Fontainebleau Forest, where some of his most famous paintings were made. One of his teachers and friends in Paris was François Souchon.
Around 1831 Díaz encountered Théodore Rousseau, for whom he possessed a great veneration, despite the fact that Rousseau was four years younger.
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Influenced by
- Théodore Rousseaueditorial inference
Evidence
Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
Later influence
- Robert Crannell Minoreditorial inference
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Narcisse Virgilio Díaz. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Musée du Louvre16 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art13 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art6 recorded works
- Walters Art Museum6 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago4 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art4 recorded works
- Finnish National Gallery3 recorded works
- Musée de Grenoble3 recorded works
- musée Grobet-Labadié — Marseille3 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum3 recorded works
- Les Pêcheries, musée de Fécamp — Fécamp2 recorded works
- musée Crozatier — Le Puy-en-Velay2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Dijon2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Marseille2 recorded works
- musée national du château de Compiègne — Compiègne2 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art2 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)2 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly1 recorded work
- musée d'art et d'histoire — Meudon1 recorded work
- musée des Augustins — Toulouse1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Béziers1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Rennes1 recorded work
- musée du château de Flers — Flers1 recorded work
- musée Gustave Courbet — Ornans1 recorded work
- musée Municipal — Bernay1 recorded work
- Nationalmuseum1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Rijksmuseum: independently verified selected paintings
- US museum and gallery creator authorities
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links