Eugène Galien-laloue Signed With The Pseudonym Dupuy

Eugène Galien-Laloue. Oil on panel "la petite mare dans la forêt" signed lower right L.Dupuy. 23.4 X 33 cm. French school.
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854-1941) was one of those painters whom critics severely condemned during his lifetime, reducing him to a secondary role in the art world and retaining him only as a witness of his time. As attested by this laconic appraisal from a Bénézit dictionary of painters and sculptors of the mid-twentieth century: The work of this delicate artist at least retained a documentary value.
What an injustice for an authentic painter who in his time knew how to synthesize the fleeting moments of Parisians of the belle époque and who knew how to masterfully capture the light of the capital's streetlamps, just as he knew how to aptly retain atmospheric variations in his rural landscapes, which he most often signed with his pseudonym Dupuy.
Galien-Laloue's works are currently highly prized by collectors.
Period wood and gilded stucco frame (a small accident to the marie louise of the frame). Good condition.
680 euros.