GALIEN LALOUE French Painting 20th Paris French Pavilion Universal Exhibition 1900 Certificate of Authenticity

GALIEN LALOUE Eugène (1854/1941)

Paris, the French Pavilion at the Universal Exhibition of 1900.

Watercolor gouache signed lower left.

19x31,5 cm

Certificate of authenticity.

Museums: Louviers - Mulhouse - La Rochelle - 

Formerly known as the Pont des Saint Pères or the Pont du Louvre, our painting actually depicts the Pont du Carrousel. But it is not its current version. Indeed, the bridge painted here by the artist during his lifetime is indeed the old bridge, completed in 1834 and mocked for the "napkin rings" of its metal structure clearly visible in our painting. The latter was demolished in 1937 for a new, wider, higher reinforced concrete structure featuring the famous telescopic lighting system created by Raymond Subes (1891-1970). It is this version that can still be seen today in the capital.

Literature: Bénézit - Dictionary of the little masters of painting by Gérald Schurr and Pierre Cabanne - Dictionary of painters in Montmartre by André Roussard - Eugéne Galien Laloue, Catalog raisonné by Noé Willer - David Klein, Eugéne Galien Laloue Los Angeles 1993 - 

GALIEN-LALOUE Eugène Born in 1854 in Paris – Died in 1941 in Chérence.

Painter of genre scenes, military subjects, animated landscapes, urban landscapes, gouache painter, watercolorist. A pupil of his father Charles Laloue, Eugène Galien-Laloue exhibited at the Salon from 1879 and specialized in views of Paris during the Belle Epoque. Gifted with great ease, Eugène Galien-Laloue had a very large production, mainly in gouache and small works. Eugène Galien-Laloue often depicts the most picturesque places in Paris: The Grands Boulevards, the flower markets of La Madeleine or La Conciergerie, the banks of the Seine. At the beginning of the 20th century Eugène Galien-Laloue had a fine reputation for evoking the atmosphere of Paris in 1900 with its omnibuses and cabs of the Belle Époque. The work of Eugène Galien-Laloue also has a value as a testimony of his time. This refined and delicate artist also painted landscapes of Normandy, Seine et Marne, Marseille, Italy and Venice and in 1914 representations of military views. The PAINTERS of PARIS Paris is one of the cities in the world that has most attracted painters. But the nature and reasons for this interest have evolved with the history of the city. Paris is a mosaic of neighborhoods. Painters have depicted the most attractive sites and prestigious monuments, appropriating the places to nourish their imagination – from the Ile de la Cité to the Arc de Triomphe – from Place Clichy to the Opera – from the Latin Quarter to the Tuileries – from the Grands Boulevards to Montmartre or the banks of the Seine – The XIXThe 1870th century profoundly changed the appearance of the city, and the realist painter would focus on depicting people in their daily lives. Under Napoleon III, the modernization of the capital, led by Baron Haussmann, with the opening of major arteries, the construction of new neighborhoods such as around Parc Monceau or the Etoile, monuments such as the Opera or the Church of St. Augustine, the development of the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes – all subjects that painters would want to capture on canvas. After the trials of XNUMX, Paris liberated itself and experienced a period of pleasure and joie de vivre. Many painters, French and foreign, have successfully illustrated this society known as "La Belle Epoque" - Among the most famous: Auguste Renoir and "Le Bal du Moulin de la Galette" Claude Monet and "La Gare St-Lazare" - Raoul Dufy at the "Palais Royal" - Edouard Manet "La Musique aux Tuileries" - Henri de Toulouse Lautrec "At the Moulin Rouge" Some painters have become "the specialists of Paris" representing the liveliness of the streets and gardens, the flower markets of the city or along the Church of the Madeleine, the "bouquinistes" on the banks of the Seine with Notre Dame... Everything is an excuse to capture this hectic and worldly life at any time of the day or night, and in any season. Such as: Jean Béraud and his elegant ladies - Edouard Cortès - Georges Stein - Eugène Galien Laloue - and many others perhaps less famous but just as talented. 

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