Ludovic Alleaume (1859-1941) - La Plage De Dieppe, Circa 1890

Ludovic Alleaume (1859-1941)
La Plage De Dieppe, Circa 1890
Oil on canvas mounted on panel
12.5 x 21 cm at sight
23 x 31 cm with frame
Located and signed lower right

Painter, lithographer and master glassmaker, Ludovic Alleaume studied in his hometown of Angers, where he apprenticed with decorative painters. At the age of eighteen he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his teachers were Ernest Hebert and Luc-Olivier Merson. In 1888, he spent two months in Palestine, returned there for a year in 1890, and his studies in Jerusalem and the surrounding area made him paint several orientalist paintings. Alleaume also painted biblical themes, mainly from the New Testament, as well as allegorical and literary subjects, landscapes, nudes, portraits and genre subjects. An excellent designer, Alleaume works in an academic style which owes little to the most avant-garde trends in contemporary French art of the time.