GALIEN LALOUE Painting 20th Paris Animation on the Champs Elysées and the Place de l'Etoile Gouache Signed

GALIEN LALOUE Eugène (1854/1941)

Paris Animation on the Champs Elysées and the Place de l'Etoile.

Watercolor gouache signed lower left.

28,6x46,2 cm

Figure in the archives of Mr Noé Willer.

Museums: Louviers - Mulhouse - La Rochelle -

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 Eugene

Born in 1854 in Paris - Died in 1941 in Chérence.

Painter of genre scenes, military subjects, animated landscapes, urban landscapes, gouache painter, watercolourist.

A pupil of his father Charles Laloue, Eugène Galien-Laloue exhibited at the Salon from 1879 and made a specialty of views of Paris at La Belle Epoque. Gifted with great ease, Eugène Galien-Laloue had a very large production, mainly in gouache and works of small sizes. Eugène Galien-Laloue often represents the most picturesque places in Paris: The Grands Boulevards, The flower markets of La Madeleine or La Conciergerie, The quays of the Seine.

At the start of the 20th century, Eugène Galien-Laloue had a fine reputation for evoking the atmosphere of Paris in 1900 with its omnibuses and cabs from La Belle Epoque. The work of Eugène Galien-Laloue also bears witness to 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.

PAINTERS of PARIS

Paris is one of the cities in the world that has attracted painters the most. But the nature and the reasons for this interest have evolved with the history of the city. Paris is a mosaic of neighborhoods. The painters have represented the most attractive sites and prestigious monuments by appropriating the places to nourish their imagination - from the Ile de la Cité to the Arc de Triomphe - from the Place Clichy to the Opera - from Latin Quarter at the Tuileries - from the Grands Boulevards to Montmartre or to the banks of the Seine -

Le XIXth century profoundly changed the appearance of the city and the realist painter endeavored to represent men in their daily lives.

Under Napoleon III, the modernization of the capital, led by Baron Haussmann, with the construction of major arteries, the construction of new districts such as around Parc Monceau or l'Etoile, monuments such as the Opera or the Church of St. Augustin, the arrangement of the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes - so many subjects that painters will want to fix on the canvas.

After the ordeals of 1870, Paris freed itself and saw a period of pleasures of joie de vivre. Many painters, French and foreigners, 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 animation of the streets and gardens, the flower markets of the city or along the Church of the Madeleine, the "booksellers" on the banks of the Seine with Notre Dame ... Everything is a pretext to take a bite out of this hectic and worldly life at any time of day or night, and in any season. Such: Jean Béraud and his elegant women - Edouard Cortès - Georges Stein - Eugène Galien Laloue - and many others perhaps less famous but just as talented.

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