The Banks of the River Durance at Saint Paul

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1864

Paul Camille Guigou (French, 1834-1871)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Paul Camille Guigou
Title: The Banks of the River Durance at Saint Paul
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1864
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: Paul Guigou 64
Dimensions: 62 × 148 cm (24 1/2 × 58 1/4 in.); Framed: 88.3 × 172.8 × 10.2 cm (34 3/4 × 68 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: Jointly acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago, through the Searle Freedom Trust
Reference Number: 1986.137
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Claudette Roseline Mainzer, “Paul Camille Guigou (1834-71),” Master’s Thesis, University of Southern California, January 1975, p. 66, no.19.
Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago: Art Institute, 1987), 49, 51 (ill.), 118.
Claude-Jeanne Bonnici, Paul Guigou 1834 - 1871 vol. 1 (Aix-en-Provence, 1989), 42, 153, no. 91 bis, ill.
Sylvie Lamort de Gail, Paul Guigou: Catalogue Raisonné vol. I (Paris, 1989), 91, no. 52, ill., pl. 14.
Charles and Mario Garibaldi, Monticelli (Geneva: Skira, 1991), 200, ill.
Jean Roger-Soubiran, La paysage provençal et l’école de Marseille avant l’Impressionisme, 1845–1874, exh. cat. (Toulon: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1992).
Simon Kelly and April M. Watson, Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet exh. cat. (Saint Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2013), 180-181, cat. 58 (ill.).

Paris, Salon 1864, cat. 887, as Les Bords de la Durance, à Saint-Paul (Bouches-du-Rhône).
Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet, October 19, 2013–January 19, 2014; Saint Louis Art Museum, February 22–May 25, 2014, cat. 58 (ill.).

Mrs. W.H. Miller [letter of August 17, 1998 from Gloria Williams in curatorial file]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 1, 1964, lot 157 to Arthur Tooth; acquired by the Norton Simon Museum, Los Angeles; sold, Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, New York, May 12, 1978, lot 179. William Beadleston Inc., together with Artemis, London; acquired by the Art Institute as partial gift of the Searle Family Trust in 1986.

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