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Regis-Francois Gignoux (1816-1882) 
Aliases: Marie-François-Régis Gignoux; Régis Francois Gignoux; Régis François Gignoux; Régis-François Gignoux
Professions: Landscape painter; Naval painter; Historical-scenes painter
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REGIS FRANCOIS GIGNOUX
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REGIS FRANCOIS GIGNOUX American (1816-1882) Gathering at the Pond's Edge, oil on canvas, 15 x 24, signed lower left & dated 1852. Provenance: An Iowa estate. See color plate, page
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REGIS FRANCOIS GIGNOUX American (1816-1882)
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Sgn. Gignoux 1862, (Regis Francois Gignoux (Fr./Am 1816-1882), landscape with hunter and dog, o/c, relined, some restoration, unframed, good cond., 27" x 21"
Biography: Gignoux
(b lyon, 1816; d paris, 6 aug 1882). French painter, active in the USA. He was educated at Fribourg, the Académie de St. Pierre in Lyon and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Paul de la Roche. About 1840 he settled in New York and became a skilled exponent of the Hudson River school. Gignoux’s work is distinguished by its delicate touch and velvet colour, recalling that of François Boucher, yet he demonstrated an impressive resilience in applying his talents in a thoroughly American idiom. On the Upper Hudson (priv. col., see j. k. howat: the hudson river and its painters , new york, 1971, p. 93, colour pl. 43), one of Gignoux’s finest paintings, shows the subtly modulated palette, diaphanous atmosphere, fine articulation of foreground forms and a cadence of light and shadow that characterize his style. Gignoux’s work was widely collected during his lifetime, and he achieved a reputation for his distinctive winter scenes; for example, winter scene in New Jersey (1847; boston, ma, mus. f.a.) was purchased by Maxim Karolik. Gignoux exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design in New York (1842–68), the Boston Athenaeum (1845–62) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1855–68). He was the founding president of the Brooklyn Art Association (serving from 1861 to 1869) and exhibited there between 1860 and 1884. He returned to Paris in 1870.
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