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About Frank C. Peyraud
A hard-working painter of panoramas, he earned a lasting reputation for rural landscapes in broadly defined forms and glowing colors.
He was born in Bulle, Switzerland and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1881, he emigrated to Chicago where he spent the remainder of his career and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1891, he became involved in retouching Paul Phillipoteaux's panorama, "The Battle of Gettysburg", when it came to Chicago for exhibition. He continued to work on panoramic and cycloramas spectacles including "The Creation" for the 1903 Louisiana Exposition. "Spring Painted Desert" in the Santa Fe Railroad Collection shows at least one trip West. |
Paintings by Frank C. Peyraud
| Winter Light on the Farm |
| oil on canvas:12 x 18 inches |
| signed and dated 1896: lower right |
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| Corn Shocks in Fall |
| oil on canvas: 7 x 11 inches |
| signed: lower right |
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