Provenance
Slydell Gallery, New York, New York
Related Works
South American Scene, 1862, oil on canvas, 14 ¾ x 22 ¼ inches, initialed and dated bottom left: M 62; Princeton University Museum of Art, Princeton, New Jersey
Ave Maria, Ecuador, 1862, oil on canvas, 8 ⅛ x 14 ⅛ inches, The New York Historical Society, New York, New York
Note
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Louis Rémy Mignot traveled extensively through Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, including a formative journey to Ecuador with Frederic Church, at a time when such regions were rarely depicted by American artists.[1] Working directly from observation in places such as Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Colombia, he produced immersive tropical landscapes distinguished by botanical specificity, humid atmosphere, and dramatic light. Mignot’s work is held in collections across the United States including the Brooklyn Museum, Princeton University Museum of Art, the New York Historical Society, and the Greenville County Museum of Art.
[1] Katherine E. Manthorne and John W. Coffey, The Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot: A Southern Painter Abroad (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press for the North Carolina Museum of Art, 1996), 71.