Paul Victor Vignon

Vignon was a disciple of Corot and a pupil of Cals. He painted around Bougival, Clamart and Saint-Cloud, as well as at Pontoise and Auvers-sur-Oise, where he painted with Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne and Armand Guillaumin.
In 1880 he exhibited at the Fifth Impressionist Exhibition, showing five paintings including ‘Effect de Neige, Montesson’ and ‘Carrieres, pres de Chatou’. He continued to exhibit at the sixth and seventh Impressionist Exhibitions, where he exhibited sixteen further paintings with titles that included ‘La Seine a Port Marly’, ‘La Seine a Bougival and ‘Louveciennes’. Paul Victor Vignon was a particular friend of Camille Pissarro and they often painted together using the same locations on the Seine.
At the seventh exhibition, held at the Galerie Durand-Ruel the critic Felix Feneon accused him of complacency for continuing to paint similar riverscapes, and at the eighth exhibition, where he exhibited seven paintings, he varied his subject matter, exhibiting ‘L’Ancien Moulin de Jouy (Effect de soleil, Mars) and ‘Une Ferme, vue du Codru, a Jouy”.
Paintings in the collection at the Musee d’Orsay include: ‘Paysage a Auvers-sur-Oise’, ‘Maisons dans le Vallon’, ‘Rue le Hameau de Valherme’ and ‘Chemin des Frileuses a Evecquemont.
Works by Vignon are also in the Museums at Amsterdam, Reims, Bayonne and d’Aix-les-Bains.