Victor Vignon
Spring Landscape
1879-1888
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Victor Vignon
Spring Landscape
1879-1888
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 9 1/4 x 13 13/16 in. (23.5 x 35.1 cm.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.45.277
Vignon's work forms a link between the realistic style of the Barbizon School and the more free and immediate paintings of the Impressionists. A student of Camille Corot in the late 1860s, Vignon befriended both Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne during the 1870s, and exhibited in four of the eight Impressionist exhibitions. His landscapes and still lifes are marked by broken brushwork and a light, colorful palette, placing him well within the ranks of the avant-garde in late 19th-century France.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art
A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940
"Exhibition of the George A. Lucas Art Collection," Baltimore: The Maryland Institute, 1911, cat. #253.
"A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840 - 1940," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941, p. 47.
"The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1965, cat. #274.
"The Lucas Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1974, cat. #274.
Inscribed: FACE: BL, 'Vi Vignon.'. VERSO, FRAME: UR, 'BMA cat./1965/#274'; CL, 'Succession G.A. Lucas...'
