Galien-laloue Walk Along The River

Beautiful oil on canvas, circa 1880, depicting a woman walking by the river towards the village, signed lower left Juliany. Gallien-Laloue, strongly influenced by Jean-Baptiste Corot, signed his works in particular Juliany, one of his many pseudonyms which allowed him to bypass the exclusivity contract signed with a painting dealer. We notice a great mastery of the master in his play of shadow and light. Barbizon frame in wood and gilded stucco. Dimensions of the canvas, 46x55 cm Total dimensions, with frame, 62x71 cm Eugène Galien-Laloue, usual name of Eugène Gallien Laloue, also known under the pseudonyms of Léon Dupuy, Eugène Dupuy, Juliany, Eugène Galiany, Jacques Liévin, Eugène Lemaitre, Maurice Lenoir, Dumoutier and A.Languinais, is a French painter and engraver, born in Paris on December 11, 1854 and died in Chérence on April 18, 1941, famous for his Parisian urban landscapes. His father, the painter and theater decorator Charles Laloue, married Marie Eudoxie Lambert in Paris at the Batignolles on December 29, 1853. Eugène Gallien Laloue was born on December 11 of the following year in Montmartre, rue Léonie. He was baptized the following January in the parish of Saint-Pierre de Montmartre. He was a pupil of Léon Germain Pelouse (1838-1891), painter of the School of Barbizon, of which he was influenced but without being part of it. In 1870, his father died and he had to leave school to look for work, being the eldest in a family of nine boys. His mother places him with a notary. Cheating on his age, he enlisted in the War of 1870. In 1874, he lived in rue de Clignancourt, he was recruited by the French Railway Company to draw the route of the rails from Paris to the provincial stations; he took the opportunity to paint the surrounding landscapes, then the districts of Paris, of which he produced a considerable number of gouaches, taking care to respect the outline of the perspective of the buildings. He varies the tone of the sky, the appearance of the trees and the lighting according to the seasons, bringing the places to life with characters, particularly fond of the effects of wet sidewalks in the rain or snow. His work is also closely linked to the landscapes of villages in the Ile-de-France countryside. In 1874, he stayed in Fontainebleau where he painted sunsets and sunrises, as well as backyard scenes, farmyards in Samois-sur-Seine, in the company of Charles Jacque and Léon Dupuy, artist who did not will not make a career, but whose name Eugène Galien-Laloue will use as a pseudonym, giving it a second life to make it known to artistic circles. On the Butte Montmartre, he painted La Foire de Montmartre, Place Pigalle, as well as the Sacré-Cœur site. In 1879, he married Flore Bardin (1861-1887) who gave him a son on July 3, 1880, whom they named Fernand. In 1892, he married for a second time the sister of his first wife, Ernestine Bardin, who gave him a daughter, Flore Marie Agnès, on February 4, 1893. That same year, he worked at the Bateau-Lavoir, but his solitary nature did not end. do not grant to this place. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was not mobilized because of his voluntary engagement in 1870 and his age, but he made many drawings, watercolors of military scenes in 1914.. Ernestine Bardin died in 1925. He then married the third sister of his previous wives, Claire Bardin, in 1930. Widowed again in 1933, he moved in with his daughter Flore in 1935. In 1940, he left for an exodus to Bordeaux, unable to paint because of a broken arm. He died on April 18, 1941 in his daughter's country house, in Chérence (Val-d'Oise), and was buried in the municipal cemetery. He painted landscapes of Normandy, Seine-et-Marne, Marseille, Italy and Venice. The pictorial production of this artist, under his name or under a pseudonym, was plethoric, and his commercial success attracted imitators whose pastiches are common on the art market. He had two workshops in Montmartre: one at no 4 rue Ravignan in 1877, and the second at no 24 rue Houdon where he was active in 1886. In 1906, he moved to Fontainebleau. Salons: Salon of French artists: 1877: two paintings including In Normandy, and two gouaches; 1878: two paintings; 1879: two paintings; 1887: Les Bords du Loing, gouache; 1889: Bernay; Banks of the Meuse, gouaches; 1904: Boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle; 1905: La Porte Saint-Denis; 1906: Place Pigalle; 1907: Boulevard Magenta; Saint-Médard Church; 1908: Boulevard de la Madeleine; Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle; 1909: Place de la Bastille; Porte Saint-Martin; 1911: Quay of the town hall; 1914: Flower market at the Madeleine. Works in public collections: United States Huntington (West Virginia), Huntington Museum of Art. France Auvers-sur-Oise, museum Daubigny La Rochelle, museum of fine arts. Louviers, Louviers museum. Mulhouse, museum of fine arts. Reims, Museum of Fine Arts.