Claude-Francois Auguste de Mesgrigny (French, 1836 to 1884
Born in Paris in 1836, Claude Francois Auguste, Marquis de Mesgrigny, was a student of Maxime Lalanne and Jules Worms. He made his artistic debut at the Paris Salon in 1866 with charcoal drawings and later exhibited “Views of the Environs of Chaubourg” and “View of Spain”.
de Mesgrigny’s first oil paintings appeared in 1870, wherein he demonstrated his admiration of the beauty of the river banks of France. Though de Mesgrigny was not affiliated with the artists of Fontainebleau, his style is strongly akin to that of the Barbizon artists who painted en plein air.