This painting is listed as #24 in the 1915 solo exhibition at the Art Institute.

“Florida Home” written on stretcher bar on reverse.

Biography from the Archives of askART

Peyraud was one of the first American painters to focus on Midwestern landscape, and did many river and farm scenes including his signature snowscapes. Many of his paintings reflected Impressionism, a style which received much attention in Chicago at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. 

Peyraud was born in Bulle, Switzerland, and enrolled as an architecture student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1881, at age 22 and an established architect in France, he emigrated to Chicago where he spent the remainder of his career.

Peyraud also did mural painting, several of them in Peoria, Illinois including a series of allegorical murals with Hardesty Maratta in the Peoria at the newly-built Public Library. In Peoria, he also taught classes and gave lectures.  In 1906, he married Elizabeth Krysher, a portrait painter and illustrator.

Sources include: Marianne Richter, Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection, "Frank Charles Peyraud" by Wendy Greenhouse, p. 190

Wendy Greenhouse, "Frank C. Peyraud", Chicago Modern, 1893-1945, p. 141