Saturday September 16th discover a faithful reproduction of first Daubigny's sutio-boat, the Botin (in front of the Auvers' town hall, at 4PM)
The Botin has been imaginated and created by Charles François Daubigny from an existing boat. His goal was to be able to paint closer to the nature.
This year is the 160th anniversary of it's launch, in 1857.
More than a year ago, this was decided by the Auvers-sur-Oise town council to study the possibility to rebuild the Botin.
This project was dear to Daniel Raskin (1926-2008), descendant of Charles Fançois Daubigny.
He started to work on it, more than 10 years ago. He did several researches, created the plans and made a scale model of the boat-studio. (exposed at the Studio-House)