EUGENE GALIEN-LALOUE (1854-1941)

Boats in the port Oil on panel, signed L. Dupuy for Eugène Galien-Laloue on the lower right. Dimensions : 22 x 15,5 cm A true specialist in pseudonyms, he used many of them, such as Liévin, J. Liévin, Eugène Dupuy, Louis Dupuy, Galiany, M. Lenoir, L. Courtreu, A. Garnier, S. Karamngie, E. Juliani or Languillons, even if a large part of his oils were signed "L. Dupuy". Painter of genre scenes, landscapes, animated landscapes, urban landscapes, and numerous gouaches and watercolors, he would have been the pupil of Charles Laloue of whom no trace is found. A particularly gifted painter, Galien-Laloue exhibited for the first time in Paris in 1877 at the Salon des Artistes Français. He painted landscapes of Normandy, Seine-et-Marne, Marseille, Italy and Venice, starting in the Barbizon style and then moving towards Impressionism. During his lifetime, he enjoyed a great reputation, particularly in representing the atmosphere of Paris in the 1900s. He was also the author of military representations at the request of the French government in 1914. Main Museums : Louviers, Mulhouse or La Rochelle.