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Birth
1827 (France)
Death
1869 (New York City)
Lived/Active
New York/New Jersey / France
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opulent still life, landscape and miniature painter
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Information about still-life painter Paul LaCroix, French-Swiss in origin, is hard to come by. The artist emigrated to the United States in the late 1840s and was active in New York City in 1858-1869. It is thought that he may actually have painted the pictures of artist Severin Roesen, or been otherwise associated with that artist, because when Roesen leaves New York for Pennsylvania, LaCroix's name surfaces.
His still-lives, depicting fruit, vegetables and flowers, resonate with a metaphysical intensity that carries them far beyond realistic surface representation alone, though they are very real.
His hanging bunch of grapes is in the collection of the Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio. LaCroix's painting of a wedge of watermelon looming in the foreground of a woodland setting is stupendously monumental for its mere ten-inch by twelve-inch dimensions.
The artist died in New York City, 1869.
Source:
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
Who Was Who in American Art, Peter Falk
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Known for lush still life and a part of the 19th century movement that made that subject matter accepted by the viewing public, he was an artist of fine composition and technique. He also painted a few landscape subjects.
The details of his life are somewhat scarce. It is known he was 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. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Brooklyn Art Association. | |
Biography from Charleston Renaissance Gallery:
|  PAUL LACROIX (1827-1869)
Featuring sumptuous arrangements of fruit, vegetables, and flowers, Paul Lacroix’s canvases exude a vibrancy and richness that helped ignite and define the nineteenth century American appetite for still life paintings. Though little is known of Lacroix’s formal education, his mastery of composition and technique is clearly evident in this example and throughout his oeuvre.
Born and raised in France, Lacroix immigrated to the United States in the late 1840s and was active in New York City from 1858-1867 and in Hoboken, New Jersey from 1867 until his death in 1869. During these years, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design and Brooklyn Art Museum. Scholars believe Lacroix may have enjoyed an association with the painter Severin Roesen, perhaps as an apprentice. Lacroix’s works are in the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Lyman Allyn Museum, and Springfield Museum of Art.
This essay is copyrighted by the Charleston Renaissance Gallery and may not be reproduced or transmitted without written permission from Hicklin Galleries, LLC.
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