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Croesus Receiving Tribute from a Lydian Peasant et Painting ID:: 9645
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VIGNON, Claude Croesus Receiving Tribute from a Lydian Peasant et 1629
Oil on canvas, 105 x 149 cm
Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Tours
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The Young Singer et Painting ID:: 9646
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VIGNON, Claude The Young Singer et 1622-23
Oil on canvas, 95 x 90 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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rThe Young Singer (mk05) Painting ID:: 20368
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VIGNON, Claude rThe Young Singer (mk05) 37 1/2 x 35 1/2''(95 x 90 cm).Given in 1966 R.F
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Esther before Ahasuerus Painting ID:: 29653
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VIGNON, Claude Esther before Ahasuerus 1624
Oil on canvas, 80 x 119 cm
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The Hills at Triel Painting ID:: 54052
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VIGNON, Claude The Hills at Triel mk235
c.1881
Oil on canvas
46.4x55.4cm
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VIGNON, Claude
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French Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1670
French painter, printmaker and illustrator. Born into a prosperous family in Tours, he received his early training in Paris, probably in Jacob Bunel's studio. In 1609-10 he travelled to Rome; although his presence there is recorded only in 1618-20, he was probably based there throughout that decade, becoming a member of the community of young French artists that included Simon Vouet and Valentin de Boullogne. They were all predominantly influenced by the art of Caravaggio and of his most direct follower Bartolomeo Manfredi. Vignon's severe half-length figures (St Paul, Turin, Gal. Sabauda; Four Church Fathers, on loan to Cambridge, Fitzwilliam), executed possibly even earlier than 1615, are in a Caravaggesque style, as are his paintings of singers, musicians and drinkers (e.g. the Young Singer, Paris, Louvre), although the latter group owes more to the style of contemporary genre painting. However, Vignon was already showing an interest in new artistic experiments, the origins of which were northern, Venetian and Mannerist. His sensitivity to the splendid colouring of Venice and to the art of Jacques Bellange, Georges Lallemand and Jacques Callot is manifest in his Martyrdom of St Matthew (1617; Arras, Mus. B.-A.), a work with striking references to Caravaggio's painting of the same subject (Rome, S Luigi dei Francesi), and still more so in his Adoration of the Magi (1619; Dayton, OH, A. Inst.), which also shows clear links with the art of several precursors of Rembrandt, including Adam Elsheimer, Pieter Lastman, Jakob Pynas and particularly Leonard Bramer. |
Related Artists::. | Charles-Amable Lenoir | Laurens Craen | John Atkinson Grimshaw | |
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