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nordleuchten · 1 month

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24 Days of La Fayette: Day 5

(I might be really behind schedule, but I will finish what I have started.)

Artist: Thomas Pritchard Rossiter (1818–1871), and Artist: Louis Remy Mignot (American, Charleston, South Carolina 1831–1870 Brighton). Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War). Oil on canvas, 1859. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.18413572. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 (The Home of Washington after the War) is probably one of the more famous pieces on this list. It was painted 1859 by Thomas Pritchard Rossiter and Louis Remy Mignot. The Mount Vernon Ladies Association was founded in 1853 and there was a renewed interest in Mount Vernon and its history. That is the reason why the pair decided to set their scene at Washingtons home. Mignot was tasked with painting the house and the landscape – a task he took very seriously, he visited Mount Vernon during a painting trip and talked with older people in the area to get the proverbial full picture. Painting the figures fell to Rossiter and while he certainly also did his research, a closer look at the clothing and styling of the figures reveal that it was indeed not a painting done in 1784. Houdon’s bust of Washington supposedly served as a model for the President while an assortment of paintings from Lee University and Washington University served most likely as inspirations for La Fayette and the Custis children.

While there are definitely worse depictions of La Fayette, there are also better ones. The receding hairline is this one very prominent feature that goes a long way of letting La Fayette “look like” La Fayette – but I also find it a bit “lazy” to rely solely on such features (what is rich, coming from a person who can not paint even if my life were to depend on it.)

The composition, a mix of a historical and a genre painting, was very popular at the time. There are also some variations of this painting, especially in print. Here we see depictions of La Fayette arriving, Washington enthusiastically greeting La Fayette or La Fayette leaving Mount Vernon at the end of his stay. While these are all separated works, the parallels between these pieces and the painting at hand are too stark to dismiss the obvious inspiration that was taken from Mignot’s and Rossiter’s work. The historical elements of the portrait depict La Fayette’s third visit to the United States, just after the end of the War. With peace now prevailing he could enjoy his time as a private gentleman and as a friend of Washington at Mount Vernon, away from the horrors of war that had previously occupied him in America. His trip in 1784 would be the last time he and Washington meet in person. But still, La Fayette’s marks are still there, almost 150 years later. The room he stayed to, although afterwards used by countless other guests, is still commonly referred to as the La Fayette room and a copy of Charles Wilsons famous painting adorns the wall.

Rossiter wrote about the painting during the initial exhibition:

The busy portion of the day is over; and, as the long shadows creep slowly over the lawn, the family portion of the household have congregated under the ample portico. The General and his noble guest have arisen from the chairs, which indicate that they had formed a portion of the group with the ladies, and are standing in colloquy: Washington in the act of speaking, and Lafayette leaning against a pillar, in deferential attitude, holds a newspaper in the hand - suggestive that the discourse is a topic of the times.

N.Y.), M.M. of A. (New Y. (1965) American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 88-90.

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llovelymoonn · 2 years

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winter in art

pieter bruegel the elder hunters in the snow (1565) \\ caspar david friedrich winter landscape (1811) \\ louis remy mignot winter scene (1856) \\ gustave courbet deer in a snowy landscape (1867) \\ monet the magpie (1869) \\ utagawa hiroshige the taiko (drum) bridge and the yuhi mound at meguro

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oncanvas · 4 years

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Tropical Landscape, Louis Rémy Mignot, 1858

Oil on canvas 10 x 18 in. (25.4 x 45.7 cm)

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myfairynuffstuff · 5 years

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Louis Rémy Mignot (1831 - 1870) - Moonlight over a Marsh in Ecuador. 1858.

#Louis Rémy Mignot #Louis Remy Mignot #French-American #Moonlight #Marsh

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rhade-zapan · 6 years

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Louis Rémy Mignot Sunset, Winter 1862

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brooklynmuseum · 7 years

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The artists Frederic Edwin Church and Louis Rémy Mignot were friends who had studios in the same building in Lower Manhattan for several years. In May 1857, Mignot joined Church on his second expedition through Central and South America. Over the course of five months, they traveled via Panama to Ecuador, where they sketched Mount Chimborazo and the mountainous region near Quito, among numerous other locales.

Painted sixteen years after this second trip, and three years after Mignot’s death, Church’s Tropical Scenery is imbued with a sense of nostalgia. Altered perhaps by the veil of memory or the mellowing that comes with age, his later South American landscapes featured softened contours and atmospheric effects, rather than the precise scientific purposefulness of his earlier paintings.

Posted by Connie H. Choi Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900). Tropical Scenery, 1873. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum