![]() Régis François Gignoux (1816–1882) Oil on canvas Gift of Mrs. Carter Galt and Mrs. Charles C. Spalding,
1972 (4090.1) The French painter Régis Gignoux worked in the United
States for over three decades and specialized in
landscape and genre scenes. Although he resided in
Brooklyn, New York, he made numerous sketching
excursions to New Jersey, the Hudson River Valley,
and the Adirondack and White Mountains. In this
charming winter scene, ice skaters glide about a frozen
pond in the late-afternoon twilight; like his fellow
landscape painters, Gignoux wished to capture nature
in all its seasonal changes as a habitable place for
humans. |