Before Paul Cézanne, Paul-Camille Guigou was the 19th century’s great painter of Provence, proudly regional in his subject matter and reputation. Exhibited at the same Paris Salon where Claude Monet made his debut in 1865 (with Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur, nearby), this bold, horizontal landscape opens a vast expanse of sky, still water, and sunbaked earth. Guigou’s career was somewhat eclipsed by the Impressionist movement; Norton Simon was the first major collector to rediscover his work in the twentieth century.
Details
- Artist Name: Paul-Camille Guigou (French, 1834-1871)
- Title: The Village of Saint-Paul on the Banks of the Durance
- Date: 1865
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 25-1/2 x 59-1/4 in. (64.8 x 150.5 cm)
- Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation
- Accession Number: F.1968.08.P
- Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation
Object Information
[Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, offered 2 February 1968 and subsequently sold 19 March 1968 to];
The Norton Simon Foundation.
Salon
- Paris, 1865 to
[on loan]
- Hunt Branch Library, Fullerton, 1969-02-07 to
[on loan]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968-03 to
[on loan]
- Fullerton Library, 1969-05-23 to
Frédéric Bazille and Early Impressionism
- Art Institute of Chicago, 1978-03-04 to 1978-04-30
[on loan]
- Brooklyn Museum, 1968-08-01 to 1969-01-31
[on loan]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1969-07-16 to 1974-11-26
A Revolution of the Palette: The First Synthetic Blues and their Impact on French Artists
- Norton Simon Museum, 2015-07-17 to 2016-01-04
Three Centuries of French Art: Selections from The Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art and the Norton Simon Foundation_2
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1974-10-19 to 1976-06-15
Images of the Landscape, Barbizon and Impressionist Paintings from the Permanent Collection
- Norton Simon Museum, 1987-07-02 to 1989-10-29
Reinstallation of South Wing
- Norton Simon Museum, 1993-10-07 to 1995-08-13
- Daulte, François, Connaissance des Arts, pp. 70-77
- Bonnici, Claude-Jeanne, Paul Guigou, no. 127 p. 160
- Lamort de Gail, Sylvie, Paul Guigou: Catalogue raisonné, no. 59 p. 93
- Pigalle, L'autographe au Salon de 1865, 1865, p. 28
- Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1, 2006,
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 426 p. 296
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