SOLD Indian Summer, 1854
by Régis François Gignoux (1816–1882)39 x 58¼ inches
Signed and dated lower left: GIGNOUX / 1854; on verso: Moonlight / Painted by / Regis Gignoux / New york / 1854 / Commission of / Mr. Lottimer / Brooklyn
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Provenance
The artist
William Lottimer, Brooklyn, New York, (likely) acquired from above
Lance and Irma Keller, Bloomfield, Connecticut
Sale, Nadeau’s Auction Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut, October 24, 2020, lot 57, from above (as Moonlite Hudson River)
Private collection, New York, New York, acquired from above
Exhibited
(Possibly) National Academy of Design, New York, New York, Thirtieth Annual Exhibition, March 12–May 10, 1855, no. 109
Artist Biography
A French-born landscape artist best-known for his snow scenes.
By Chelsea DeLay
I. Biography
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I. Biography
Régis François Gignoux was born in Lyons, France, in 1816. At the age of nineteen, Gignoux enrolled as a student at the École des Beaux-Arts where he trained under the renowned history painter Paul-Hipployte Delaroche; under his instruction, Gignoux excelled at painting romantic landscape scenes. Gignoux immigrated to the United States in 1840 and settled in Brooklyn, New York. He
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