Victor Alfred Paul Vignon was a French Impressionist landscape painter and graphic artist.
Background
His mother was Marie-Noémi Cadiot, a sculptor who worked under the name "Claude Vignon" (after a character from the novel Béatrix by Balzac). When he was born, she was the proprietor of a hotel which was decorated by Puvis de Chavannes in the 1850s, so he had an early introduction to art
Education
He studied with Camille Corot and Adolphe-Félix Cals.
Career
Originally, he worked in the Val-d"Oise, supplemented with trips to Clamart, Bougival, and Louisiana Celle-Saint-Cloud. In the 1870s, he associated with Camille Pissarro and his circle in Auvers-sur-Oise. While there, he participated in the fifth, sixth and seventh Impressionist Exhibitions and was criticized by Claude Monet, who believed that his sharp outlines were not truly impressionistic.
The barrage of criticism had its effect and his work was rejected for several exhibitions, including the Salon.
Three years later, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Durand-Ruel helped organize a retrospective of his work. After his death, Renoir and Julie Manet-Rouart (the daughter of Berthe Morisot) organized another exhibition.