Charles Hallé 1867-1924 Landscape At The Mill, Crozant School (creuse, Limousin, Hareux, Alluaud..)

Charles Hallé 1867-1924 painter of the so-called Crozant school oil on panel representing a landscape with a mill and a character on the bank probably in Creuse or Limousin Delivery 20 euros Charles Hallé arrived in Creuse at the end of the 19th century, he frequented Ernest Hareux, Jeannot, Humblot. He practiced the same kind of painting there: naturalistic realism of beautiful quality. But he especially met Armand Guillaumin and Eugène Alluaud and it was they who influenced the painter to move towards Impressionism and work from nature. Charles Hallé applied these lessons and from then on the artist's compositions were bathed in a superb light that he knew how to capture sumptuously. A landscape painter, he became a member of the Salon des Artistes Français from 1894.