Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this piece to the 1930s.
Title: “Figures by a Lake – Sundown”
Signature: Signed lower left
Medium: Oil on original canvas
Size: c. 15 x 22 inches unframed / 21 x 28 framed
Condition: Very good – maybe just a light clean
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
GALIEN-LALOUE, Eugène
or Gallien-Laloue; pseudonyms: Liévin, J. Liévin, Eugène Dupuy, L. Dupuy, Galiany, M. Lenoir, Dumoutier, Kermanguy, Juliany
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born December 1854, in Paris; died 18 April 1941, in Chérence (Val-d’Oise).
Painter (gouache), watercolourist. Military subjects, genre scenes, landscapes with figures, urban landscapes.
He painted almost exclusively the most picturesque spots of Paris, notably the Grands-Boulevards. He enjoyed a considerable reputation in the early years of the 20th century and painted the happy pre-war period when the city was filled with omnibuses and carriages. His work evokes the atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Paris and retains a documentary value. He also painted landscapes of Normandy, Seine-et-Marne, Marseilles, Italy and Venice and, in 1914, began painting military scenes.
Galien-Laloue is known to have used various pseudonyms, among which were J. Liévin and Liévin. This raises the question of whether the painter Jacques Liévin, to whom paintings on the same themes as those of Eugène Galien-Laloue have been attributed, was also merely a pseudonym of the latter. Jacques Liévin is said to have studied under Léon Germain Pelouse in the early years of the 20th Century, while Galien-Laloue is believed to have studied under one Charles Laloue; however, no evidence of the existence of Charles Laloue has been found. To add to the mystery, while Galien-Laloue was mainly a watercolourist and gouache painter, Jacques Liévin worked mainly in oil; it is, therefore, possible that Galien-Laloue used this false identity specifically for his oil paintings.
Whether or not Jacques Liévin was real, the museums of La Rochelle, Mulhouse and Louviers attribute the following paintings – very reminiscent of Galien-Laloue’s style – to him: Place de la République, Paris; Banks of the Seine; Quai Voltaire, Paris; Pont-Royal; Evening, Place de la Concorde; Oats at Angerville; Corn in Beauce.
Meanwhile, Galien-Laloue exhibited under his own name from 1877 at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
La Rochelle (MBA): Place de la République, Paris (gouache signed Liévin); Banks of the Seine – Quai Voltaire, Paris (gouache signed Liévin)
Louviers (Mus. municipal)
Mulhouse
Auction Records
Est: AUD2,500 – AUD3,500
Eugene Galien-Laloue (1854 - 1941) - Rural Scene 50 x 65cm Lawsons
June 29, 2017, 2:30 PM AEST
Sydney, Australia
London, 18 Nov 1994: Morning at the Moulin Rouge, Paris (pencil, gouache and black chalk/paper, 14½ × 21¼ ins/36.9 × 54 cm) GBP 21,275
Paris, 24 March 1995: The Flower Market on the Quai de l’Horloge, Paris (gouache, 11½ × 12½ ins/29 × 32 cm) FRF 52,000
Lokeren, 20 May 1995: Paris Boulevard under Snow (gouache, 11 × 10½ ins/27 × 26.5 cm) BEF 240,000
New York, 1 Nov 1995: Place de la République, Paris (gouache, 14½ × 21¼ ins/36.8 × 54 cm) USD 21,850
Lyons, 4 Dec 1995: The Bazar de l’Est (gouache, 12½ × 15½ ins/31.5 × 39.5 cm) FRF 49,000
London, 13 March 1996: Place du Châtelet under Snow (oil on canvas, 25¼ × 36¼ ins/64 × 92 cm) GBP 54,300
New York, 23 May 1996: Corner of the Boulevard St-Michel; Place de la République (gouache/canvas, a pair, each 12 × 7½ ins/30.5 × 19.1 cm) USD 20,700
Calais,
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Eugene Galien Laloue (1854 – 1941) Large Oil Painting
