Karl Pierre Daubigny (1846-1886) was a French artist, known for his landscape paintings. Karl Daubigny was taught by his father, the well known Barbizon landscape painter Charles François Daubigny. Like his father, Karl specialised in landscapes and found many of his subjects in the Fontainebleau forest, near Paris.

The painting is executed on the type of thin, horizontal wood panel which French artists used for painting 'en plein air', and the artist probably started this work out of doors and finished it later in his studio. This painting exemplifies the way the artist's style moved away from that of his father, becoming more sombre and darker in tonality.