Bowdoin College Museum of Art | - Vespers, Guayaquil River, Ecuador

Preview image of work. oil on canvas, Vespers, Guayaquil River, Ecuador 9525

1985.18

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Vespers, Guayaquil River, Ecuador

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Artist

Louis Rémy Mignot (Charleston, South Carolina, 2/3/1831 - 9/22/1870, Brighton (East Sussex), England)

Title

Vespers, Guayaquil River, Ecuador

Creation Date

ca. 1862

Century

19th century

Dimensions

12 3/4 in. x 21 1/4 in. (32.39 cm x 53.98 cm)

Object Type

painting

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Hamlin Fund

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1985.18

Louis Rémy Mignot, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, was an artist known for his international landscape scenes. His career reached a turning point when he accompanied artist Frederic Edwin Church on a four-month expedition through Central and South America. Mignot’s French-Catholic background, suggested here by the vine-covered bell tower with its crucifix-topped orb, appears to have influenced the works he created. The bell tower’s presence in the late afternoon scene testifies to the presence of Christianity in the colonized city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Vespers, the title of this painting, describes the service of evening worship in the Catholic Church.

Keywords: landscape (representation)