RÉGIS FRANÇOIS GIGNOUX | LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1971

University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School on Loan from a Friend of the Museum of Art, January-March 1981, no. 30, p. 124, illustrated p. 6

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; New York, The National Academy, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, August 1997-September 1999, illustrated as frontispiece

Fredericksburg, Virginia, University of Mary Washington Galleries, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, October-November 2005

The present work depicts the Great Dismal Swamp, an American National Natural Landmark, which extends through southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. In the early 19th century the location inspired Irish poet Thomas Cook to record his poem titled A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp, written in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1803, and may have served as inspiration Gignoux's execution of the present work which bears the same title.