Forest Interior with a Waterfall, Papigno

1825/1830

André Giroux

Painter, French, 1801 - 1879

André Giroux

Attributed to

Slender tree trunks and branches reach across a waterfall framed by verdant green banks in this horizontal landscape painting. Boulders line most of the bottom edge of the composition except the lower left corner, which is taken over by plants. The arms of the tree or trees beyond this clump reach to the right in a loose web. Water crashes down a short waterfall also lined by boulders beyond, and the rest of the picture is filled with bright green foliage.

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 92

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Art market, Paris;[1] (Galerie J. Fischer - Ch. Kiener, Paris); sold November 1991 to Mrs. John Jay Ide, San Francisco; gift 1994 to NGA.
[1] See letter dated 28 October 1999 from Jacques Fischer, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2020

  • True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2020 - 2022, no. 4, repro.

Bibliography

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: 267-269, color repro.

Inscriptions

reverse in pencil: Papigno

Wikidata ID

Q20185059

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