Eugène Galien-Laloue, (1854-1941)
View of the flower market Place de la Madeleine
Gouache on paper
23.4 x 31 CM - 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Private collection
The Boulevard de la Madeleine is one of the four 'grands boulevards' of Paris, France, a chain of roads running east-west that includes the boulevard de la Madeleine, the boulevard des Capucines, the boulevard des Italiens and the boulevard Montmartre.
The boulevard is named after the nearby Église de la Madeleine. More on Place de la Madeleine
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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