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1827 France - 1869 New York City. Known for: Opulent still life, landscape and miniature painting.
Known for lush still life painting with fruit, vegetables and flowers, and for being a part of the 19th century movement, which made that subject matter accepted by the viewing public, Paul LaCroix... Read full biography
Known for lush still life painting with fruit, vegetables and flowers, and for being a part of the 19th century movement, which made that subject matter accepted by the viewing public, Paul LaCroix was an artist of noted composition and technique. He also painted a few landscape subjects. He often... Read full biography
Known for lush still life painting with fruit, vegetables and flowers, and for being a part of the 19th century movement, which made that subject matter accepted by the viewing public, Paul LaCroix was an artist of noted composition and technique. He also painted a few landscape subjects. He often signed his work PLacroix with the P and L conjoined. Some of his works show the influence of still-life painter Severin Roesen. "Lacroix was just a few steps behind Roesen when he arrived in New York... Read full biography
Known for lush still life painting with fruit, vegetables and flowers, and for being a part of the 19th century movement, which made that subject matter accepted by the viewing public, Paul LaCroix was an artist of noted composition and technique. He also painted a few landscape subjects. He often signed his work PLacroix with the P and L conjoined. Some of his works show the influence of still-life painter Severin Roesen. "Lacroix was just a few steps behind Roesen when he arrived in New York and Roesen left for Philadelphia. Some of Lacroix's more ambitious works are almost total imitations of Roesen's work." (Art & Architecture of New Jersey). The details of LaCroix's life are somewhat scarce. It is known he was of French-Swiss... Read full biography
Known for lush still life painting with fruit, vegetables and flowers, and for being a part of the 19th century movement, which made that subject matter accepted by the viewing public, Paul LaCroix was an artist of noted composition and technique. He also painted a few landscape subjects. He often signed his work PLacroix with the P and L conjoined. Some of his works show the influence of still-life painter Severin Roesen. "Lacroix was just a few steps behind Roesen when he arrived in New York and Roesen left for Philadelphia. Some of Lacroix's more ambitious works are almost total imitations of Roesen's work." (Art & Architecture of New Jersey). The details of LaCroix's life are somewhat scarce. It is known he was of French-Swiss ancestry, born in France, and then lived in New York City from 1859 to 1866, and in Hoboken, New Jersey from 1867 until his death in 1869... Read full biography
Paul LaCroix - Artist Info
About Paul LaCroix: Keywords
Keywords (19)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Miniature Art
- •Miniature, Small Scale Painting
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Trompe l'oeil
Art Subject
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Still Life
Art Association
- •Brooklyn Art Association
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Still Life Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •French
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York