French, 1847-1909.

Victor Alfred Paul Vignon was a French Impressionist landscape painter and graphic artist. He was involved with the impressionism movement and its protagonists, as he exhibited at the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eight Paris Impressionist Exhibitions from 1880 to 1886. Like many impressionists, he did not have any formal art training but instead educated himself by studying the works of Old Masters at the Louvre. He also received painting lessons from Camille Corot (1796–1875) around 1869. In the 1870s, Vignon worked regularly with Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) and Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) in the painters’ villages of Pontoise and Auvers-sur-Oise. While he thrived in this progressive environment, his work always remained rooted in the tradition of French landscape painting, evident in his serene village scenes and rural tableaux.