André Giroux

French, 1801 - 1879

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French painter (1801-1879)

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André Giroux, Trees, c. 1855, salted paper print, Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, 2018.6.6

Trees

André Giroux · c. 1855 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  2018.6.6

From a high vantage point, we look across a snow-covered expanse at the long side of a pale, parchment-colored building with a town beyond in this horizontal landscape view. The scene is painted loosely and mostly in tones of icy blue, cream white, golden tan, and brown. Closest to us but far below, a hedge of moss-green treetops lines the sun-drenched, ivory-white field. The field slopes up to our left and a path, between two rows of cinnamon-brown trees, leads from the bottom center of the painting to the building. Four stories of mostly rectangular windows pierce the wall of the building in front of us. Shadows on the snow-covered roof are painted with thick strokes of steel blue. On the other side of the building, a second long roofline runs parallel to the first. The short side of the building, to our right, has a tower at each corner. A fawn-brown obelisk, which is a tapering, pointed column, is topped with a cross and stands in front of the building façade. Stacked and overlapping rooflines, painted broadly in azure blue and silvery gray, fade toward the distant horizon, which comes halfway up the canvas. A blanket of white clouds with arctic-blue bottoms sweep across the sky, revealing only a few small patches of vivid blue sky beyond.
André Giroux, Santa Trinità dei Monti in the Snow, 1825/1830, oil on paper on canvas, Chester Dale Fund, 1997.65.1

Santa Trinità dei Monti in the Snow

André Giroux · 1825/1830 · oil on paper on canvas ·  Accession ID  1997.65.1

André Giroux, Forest Interior with a Waterfall, Papigno, 1825/1830, oil on paper, Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Donner, 1994.52.4

Forest Interior with a Waterfall, Papigno

André Giroux · 1825/1830 · oil on paper ·  Accession ID  1994.52.4

André Giroux, Forest Interior with a Painter, Civita Castellana, 1825/1830, oil on paper, Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Donner, 1994.52.3

Forest Interior with a Painter, Civita Castellana

André Giroux · 1825/1830 · oil on paper ·  Accession ID  1994.52.3

Bibliography

1870

  • André Giroux, 1801-1879. Auction catalogue, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 April 1870, comprising 150 paintings by Giroux.

2000

  • Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 264.