Victor Vignon

Victor Vignon
Victor Vignon with Camille Pissarro at Auvers-sur-Oise
Born	25 December 1847 (1847-12-25) Villers-Cotterêts
Died	15 March 1909 (1909-03-16) (aged 61) Meulan
Occupation	French Impressionist landscape painter and graphic artist

Victor Alfred Paul Vignon (25 December 1847, Villers-Cotterêts – 15 March 1909, Meulan) was a French Impressionist landscape painter and graphic artist.

His mother was Marie-Noémi Cadiot, a sculptor who worked under the name "Claude Vignon" (after a character from the novel Béatrix by Balzac). When he was born, she was the proprietor of a hotel which was decorated by Puvis de Chavannes in the 1850s, so he had an early introduction to art. He studied with Camille Corot and Adolphe-Félix Cals. Originally, he worked in the Val-d'Oise, supplemented with trips to Clamart, Bougival, and La Celle-Saint-Cloud. In the 1870s, he associated with Camille Pissarro and his circle in Auvers-sur-Oise.

In 1880, he moved to Nesles-la-Vallée then, a short time later, settled in L'Isle-Adam, where he made friends with Vincent Van Gogh and Dr. Paul Gachet became one of his best customers. While there, he participated in the fifth, sixth and seventh Impressionist Exhibitions and was criticized by Claude Monet, who believed that his sharp outlines were not truly impressionistic. This criticism was echoed in the 1890s by the critics Roger Marx and Félix Fénéon, who decided that many of his works had more resemblance to the old Dutch Masters.