02 Paintings, Streets of Paris, Frank Boggs and Eugène Galien- Laloue's Images of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris , with footnotes, Part 95

Frank Boggs

Boats on the River Seine with Notre Dame in the Background

Oil on Canvas

21 x 26" (54 x 67cm)

Available

Available for £6,800 in Dec 2024

Notre-Dame Cathedral , commonly known as Notre-Dame , is one of the most iconic monuments in Paris and France. It is located on the Île de la Cité and is a Catholic place of worship , seat of the Archdiocese of Paris , dedicated to the Virgin Mary. More on Notre-Dame Cathedral

Frank Myers Boggs was born in Springfield, Ohio, but left Ohio in 1876 for study with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. He lived in Paris and New York, residing the last thirty years of his life in Paris. In Paris he won wide recognition for his atmospheric paintings of the ports of France and the quays along the Seine. His works were exhibited frequently in France. Between 1879 and 1916, his work was also shown in the United States, most often at the National Academy of Design, in New York, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia.

Known as a master of plein-air painting, Boggs delighted in capturing the fleeting effects of the constantly changing skies of northern France and southern England. With lush and broad brush strokes, Boggs created rich and spacious paintings, orchestrating a subtle and restrained palette of grays, deep and dusty blues, and earthy tans. Although his palette is more subtle and tonal than that of the French Impressionist Claude Monet, Boggs’ paintings demonstrate clear affinities with the early French Impressionist school. Like his fellow Impressionists, it was the transitory aspects of nature, as well as the documentation of everyday reality, to which Boggs was keenly sensitive. More on Frank Myers Boggs

Eugène Galien- Laloue (French, 1854-1941)

Notre Dame de Paris, vue du Quai de Montebello

Gouache on paper

9-1/2 x 12 inches (24.1 x 30.5 cm)

Private collection

Sold  for $16,250.00 in Dec 2024 

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