Régis François Gignoux (1814–1882) was a French painter who was active in the United States from 1840 to 1870. (Aliases: Marie-François-Régis Gignoux; Régis Francois Gignoux; Régis François Gignoux; Régis-François Gignoux)

Biography

He was born in Lyon, France and studied at the

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under the French historical painter Hippolyte Delaroche, who inspired Gignoux to turn his talents toward landscape painting.Christie’s catalogue, Sale 2342, Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 28 September 2010, Lot 164 Gignoux arrived in the United States from France in 1840 and eventually opened a studio in Brooklyn, New York. He was a member of the

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, and was the first president of the Brooklyn Art Academy.

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(1835–1910), and

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were his students. By 1844, Gignoux had opened a studio in New York City and became one of the first artists to join the famous Tenth Street Studio, where other members included

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, and

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. He returned to France in 1870 and died in Paris in 1882. Gignoux is best known for his meticulous renderings of Northeast American landscapes, and was the only member of the

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to specialize in snow scenes. The Brooklyn Museum, the

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(Washington, DC), the

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(University of Georgia, Athens), the

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(Atlanta, Georgia), the

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, the

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(Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire), the

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(Provo, Utah), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the

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(Kansas City, Missouri), the New York Historical Society (New York City), the

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(Southampton, New York), the

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(Northampton, Massachusetts), the

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Art Collection (Washington, D. C.), the

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(Baltimore, Maryland), the

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at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, New York), and the Watson Gallery ( Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts) are among the public collections holding work by Régis François Gignoux. "A dramatic, newly restored 1843 painting of the interior of Mammoth Cave by Marie-Francois-Regis Gignoux has been restored as part of the conservation program for the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture at the New-York Historical Society opening in November

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...In his dramatically lit interior view of Mammoth Cave, Gignoux looks from deep in the cave across the so-called "Rotunda" toward the entrance, which is illuminated by an almost mystical light from the outside. From the War of 1812 onward nitre (lime nitrate) used in making saltpeter, one of the essential elements for gunpowder, was mined and prepared from bat guano in the Rotunda. ..." Currently, Mammoth Cave is touring as part of ''The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision'' organized by the New-York Historical Society.

References

* Adamson, Jeremy Elwell, ''Niagara, Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697–1901'', Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1985, 57. * Grinnell, Nancy W., ''The Light Beyond'', American Art Review, November, 1996.

Gallery

Image:Niagara, The Table Rock in Winter, oil on canvas painting by François Régis Gignoux, ca. 1847, United States Senate.jpg, '‘Niagara, The Table Rock in Winter'’, oil on canvas, ca. 1847, United States Senate Image:First Snow Along the Hudson River oil on canvas painting by François Régis Gignoux 1859, private collection.jpg, ''First Snow Along the Hudson River'', 1859 Image:View Of Peekskill By Régis-François Gignoux.png, ''View Of Peekskill'', oil on canvas, dated 1846

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