Street View in Guayaquil, Ecuador

1859

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 24 × 36 in. (61 × 91.4 cm)
Framed: 35 1/2 × 47 3/8 × 4 3/4 in. (90.2 × 120.3 × 12.1 cm)

The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart

S-188

Before settling in New York City in 1855, Mignot journeyed to The Hague in the Netherlands to study landscape painting. In 1857, Frederic Church invited Mignot to accompany him on his second voyage to South America. They arrived at the Ecuadorian port of Guayaquil and spent June and July exploring the Andes Mountains. Here Mignot’s vantage point at the end of a street allowed him to highlight distinctive features of coastal architecture, including mud structures. The figures on the street were painted later according to Mignot’s specifications by Eastman Johnson, an artist whom Mignot had befriended when he studied at The Hague.

SignedSigned and dated lower right: "Mignot / 59"

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