GALIEN LALOUE Eugène painting early 20th century View of Paris Animation Place de la Bastille Gouache signed

GALIEN LALOUE Eugène (1854 / 1941 )

Paris, lively Place de la Bastille.

Gouache signed lower left.

25 x 30 cm

Appears 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 , Catalogue raisonné by Noé Willer - David Klein , Eugéne Galien Laloue Los Angeles 1993 - 

GALEN-LALOUE Eugène

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

Painter of genre scenes, military subjects, animated landscapes, cityscapes, gouache painter, watercolorist.

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 the Belle Epoque. Endowed with great ease, Eugène Galien-Laloue had a very large production, mainly with gouache and works of small sizes. Eugène Galien-Laloue often represents the most picturesque places in Paris: The Grands Boulevards, The Madeleine or Conciergerie flower markets, The Banks of The Seine.

At the beginning of the 20th century Eugène Galien-Laloue has a good reputation by evoking the atmosphere of Paris in 1900 with his omnibuses and fiacres of the Belle Epoque.The work of Eugène Galien-Laloue is also valuable as a testimony of his time.

This refined and delicate artist also painted landscapes of Normandy, Seine and 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 attracted the most painters. But the nature and reasons for this interest have evolved with the history of the city. Paris is a mosaic of neighborhoods. The painters have represented the most seductive sites and prestigious monuments by appropriating the places to feed 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 quays of the Seine -

The nineteenth century profoundly changed the appearance of the city and the realist painter will focus on representing men in their daily life.

Under Napoleon III, the modernization of the capital, led by Baron Haussmann, with the drilling of major arteries, the construction of new districts such as around the 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 will want to fix on the canvas.

After the trials of 1870, Paris was liberated and lived a period of joie de vivre pleasures. Many painters, French and Foreign, have illustrated with happiness this so-called "Belle Epoque" society - 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 became "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 an excuse to bite into this hectic and mundane life at any time of the day or night, and in any season. Such: Jean Béraud and his elegant - Edouard Cortès - Georges Stein - Eugène Galien Laloue - and many others perhaps less famous but equally talented.