Louis Remy Mignot (American, 1831-1870)
Lot 138

Louis Remy Mignot (American, 1831-1870)

Mountain Landscape with Ruins

Closed29 July 2015

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USD 93,750

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Louis Remy Mignot (American, 1831-1870)
Mountain Landscape with Ruins
signed and dated 'LR Mignot 53' (lower right)
oil on canvas
29½ x 42 in. (75 x 106.7 cm.)
Painted in 1853.

Anton Rudert, Jr., New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1978.

Specialist note

According to John W. Coffey, Curator of American and Modern Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the present work "is a European scene, most probably based on sketches made in Germany. At the time Mignot was based at The Hague and very much under the influence of contemporary Dutch landscape painters, especially his teacher Andreas Schelfhout. It relates in a general way to several other landscapes from this early period in Mignot's career." (unpublished letter, 2014)