Sunset in the Forest (1868); The Forest of Fontainebleau (1870), and The Storm (1871). The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds some two dozen works by Díaz, including another version of The Forest of Fontainebleau and many drawings and studies. Diaz himself had no well-known pupils, but François Visconti emulated his work to some degree and Léon Richet followed markedly his methods of tree-painting. For a period, Jean-François Millet also painted small figures in avowed imitation of Diaz's then popular subjects. Renoir once said "my hero was Díaz". In 1876, while visiting his son's grave, he caught a cold. He went to Menton in an attempt to recover his health, but on November 18 of that year he died. Díaz's son, Eugène-Émile (1837–1901), achieved some fame as composer Eugène Diaz. The rue Narcisse Diaz in Auteuil, Paris is named after him. Gallery Notes References Further reading Philippe Burty, Maîtres et petit-maîtres: N. Diaz (Paris, 1877) Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Peintres et sculpteurs contemporains: Diaz (Paris, 1882) A. Hustin, Les Artistes célébres: Diaz (Paris) J.W. Mollett, Diaz (London, 1890) (see index) David Croal Thomson, The Barbizon School of Painters (London, 1890) Albert Wolff, La Capitale de l'art: Narcisse Diaz (Paris, 1886) External links 1808 births 1876 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters French amputees Landscape artists French people of Spanish descent Reptile attack victims Burials at Montmartre Cemetery Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Orientalist painters 19th-century French male artists