Eugène GALIEN-LALOUE (1854-1941), View of Paris Street

Eugène GALIEN-LALOUE [1854-1941]
View of Paris Street
oil on canvas, size: 78 x 98 cm
signed:l.d.: "E. Galien-Laloue"

Galien, a Parisian by origin, became famous primarily as a chronicler of Parisian street life of the Belle Epoque period.Orphaned by his father at an early age, he dropped out of school in favor of gainful employment with a notary. Between 1870 and 1871, he enlisted in the army to fight in the Franco-Prussian War. He then worked as an illustrator for the French railroad, which is when his first landscapes of the provinces of Paris were created. The artist first exhibited his work Flower Market along the Seine, in the Snow in 1876 at the Reims Museum. The following year, he debuted at the Paris Salon with paintings featuring views of Paris and landscapes of Normandy. Eugène showed regularly at the Salons from that point on, and after 1900 his work was also exhibited at shows in Dijon, Orléans, Versailles, Roubaix, Saint Etienne, Bordeaux, Monte Carlo, and Hautecoeur, among others. Eugène Galien-Laloue left countless vedutas of Paris and landscapes of the French provinces. He mostly used gouache and oil paints. The artist worked under many pseudonyms, including: J. Lievin, Galiany and L. Dupuy. The artist depicted the busy life of a Parisian street, faithfully rendering architectural details. His paintings are in the Museum in La Rochelle, the Quai Voltaire in Paris and the City Museum in Louviers.