Google Lens entry:This painting is one of Mignot's few North American scenes. During his lifetime, one critic wrote, "the artist has dipped his brush in the 'colors of America.'" Another, responding to his 1876 memorial exhibition, wrote: "His skies are very remarkable. Sunsets would seem to have been his delight; and no wonder, for his facility for representing upon canvas the delicate and beautiful tints produced by the rays of declining light illuminating the fringy edges of clouds, is perfectly marvelous." In 1856, Louis Rémy Mignot traveled with Frederic E. Church to Ecuador, and he subsequently painted many South American scenes. Mignot's dramatic palette may reflect the new commercial pigments that became available in the 1850s. His detailed rendering reveals the influence of the British critic John Ruskin, who urged artists to study and depict nature faithfully.---------------Louis Rémy Mignot (1831-1870)Sunset on White Mountains, 1861Oil on canvasMuseum purchase, Ednah Root Fund in honor of Marc Simpson1994.108In 1856, Louis Rémy Mignot traveled with Frederic E. Church toEcuador, and he subsequently painted many South Americanscenes. Sunset on White Mountains is one of his relativelyrare North American views. Mignot's dramatic palette mayreflect the new commercial pigments that became available inthe 1850s. His detailed rendering reveals the influence of theBritish critic John Ruskin, who urged artists to study and depictnature faithfully. Contemporary critics praised the artist for hissensitive response to nature:[Mignot] has a remarkable facility of catching the expression,often the vague, but, therefore, more interesting, expressionof a scene; he seizes upon the latent as well as the prominenteffects. He is a master of color, and some of his atmosphericexperiments are wonderful.Henry Tuckerman, “Landscape Painters,” in Book of the Artists,American Artist Life (New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1867)