View of the Riva degli Schiavoni , circa 1890 

Oil on canvas

Signed lower right  

Dimensions: 37.5 x 53 cm

With frame 64 x 80 cm

Traveling painter, he built his career on his excursions: from Andalusia to the Maghreb via Italy, he traveled the Mediterranean, eager for patterns to paint and fix. Here it represents a view of the riva degli Schiavoni.

In front of the painter, the statue of Vittorio Emanuele rises, proud; in the background, the Basilica di Santa della Salute gives a point of view. The painter uses the reflections of light to make the reflections of the sun shimmer in the puddles of rain and on the lagoon, smooth and pale like a mirror. Pierre Vignal does not depart from the picturesque anecdote: in the foreground, birds peck around a puddle.

A pupil of Lalanne and Jacquard, he began at the Salon of 1875, as a painter and watercolorist. In 1883, he became a member of the Society of French Artists. At the Salon, he received a third place in 1901 and a second place in 1907. He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor.