1850, Régis François Gignoux, Winter Scene -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label: While painting directly from nature was the guiding mantra of the majority of Gignoux's fellow American artists who exhibited landscapes at the National Academy of Design and were affiliated with the Hudson River School, the idyllic vista of Winter Scene suggests that seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting provided as great a visual impulse as a countryside site in Gignoux's adopted home.
1850, Régis François Gignoux, Winter Scene -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label: While painting directly from nature was the guiding mantra of the majority of Gignoux's fellow American artists who exhibited landscapes at the National Academy of Design and were affiliated with the Hudson River School, the idyllic vista of Winter Scene suggests that seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting provided as great a visual impulse as a countryside site in Gignoux's adopted home.