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    		• Gignoux, Regis Francois,
     
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    		• Ceremony -- Holiday
     
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    		• Landscape -- Lake
     
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    		• Landscape -- Season
     
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    		• Landscape -- Time
     
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    		• Architecture -- Domestic
     
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    		• Painting
     
     
    The Night Before Christmas, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Gignoux, Regis Francois, 1814-1882, painter.
    Title: 
    The Night Before Christmas, (painting).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1847.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    29 x 36 in. (73.7 x 91.4 cm.).
    Description: 
    Depiction of a winter landscape. Cottage and pond in center; cottage and road on left with St. Nick entering chmney and reindeer waiting on path.
    Subject: 
    Ceremony -- Holiday -- Christmas
    Landscape -- Lake
    Landscape -- Season -- Winter
    Landscape -- Time -- Night
    Architecture -- Domestic
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Biblical Arts Center, 7500 Park Lane, P. O. Box 12727, Dallas Texas 75225
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Nicholson, John, New York
    Collin, Douglass, Massachusetts
    Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc., 238 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116
    Anonymous Collection, New York
    R. H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
    Lamb Collection, Chicago, Illinois
    Remarks: 
    Used as image on UNICEF Christmas card, 1975.
    References: 
    Biblical Arts Center, 1988.
    R. H. Love Galleries, sale catalog: "American Paintings", 1977.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Antiques, Dec. 1967.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 62510027
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