biografia di Paul LACROIX (1827-1869)

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC, 1855-66; Hoboken, NJ, 1867-69

Profession: Still-life and landscape painter

Exhibited: NAD, 1863-69; Brooklyn AA, 1867; Derby Gal.

Comments: Emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1840s. Primarily a still-life painter of fruit, vegetables and flowers. Some of his works show the influence of Severin Roesen, while others are placed in natural-settings. He often signed "P. Lacroix" with the P. and the L. conjoined.

Sources: G&W; NYBD 1858; Gerdts, Painters of the Humble Truth, 103-05 (repro.); For Beauty and for Truth, 73 (w/repro.)