Eugène Galien-Laloue, 1854-1941, FRENCH
Arc de Triomphe
Gouache and watercolour over pencil on paper
18.5 by 30cm., 7¼ by 11¾in.
Private collection
Estimate at 5,000 - 7,000 USD in October 2021
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile is one of
the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the
Champs-Élysées at the center of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place
de l'Étoile — the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its
twelve radiating avenues.
Inspired
by the Roman Arch of Titus, the Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50
metres (164 ft), width of 45 m (148 ft), and depth of 22 m (72 ft), while its
large vault is 29.19 m (95.8 ft) high and 14.62 m (48.0 ft) wide. The smaller
transverse vaults are 18.68 m (61.3 ft) high and 8.44 m (27.7 ft) wide. Three
weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919 (marking the end of hostilities in
World War I), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane under the arch's
primary vault, with the event captured on newsreel.
Paris's Arc de Triomphe was the tallest triumphal arch
until the completion of the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City in
1938. More
on L'Arc de Triomphe
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) was a French
artist of French-Italian parents and was born in Paris on December 11, 1854. He
was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter. His
paintings of the early 1900s accurately represent the era in which he lived: a
happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages, trolley
cars and its first omnibuses. Galien-Laloue's works are valued not only for
their contribution to 20th-century art, but for the actual history, which they
document. His work can be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Louvier; Musée des
Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle; Mulhouse, France.
A typical Galien-Laloue painting depicts
sidewalks and avenues crowded with people or tourists mingling before the
capital's monuments. He also painted the landscapes of Normandy and
Seine-et-Marne, as well as military scenes he was commissioned to produce in
1914. The Republic of France selected Galien-Laloue to work as a 'war artist,'
both during the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, chiefly in watercolor. More on Eugène Galien-Laloue
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