Victor Eugène Papeleu (1810-1880) ''landscape''

Eugène Victor Papeleu de Poelvoorde, born in Ghent on February 27, 1810 where he died on May 4, 1881, was a Belgian painter from the Barbizon School. Pupil of Jean Achille Benouville and Jules Dupré, from 1829, he participated in the Salon de Ghent and then moved to Barbizon. He then participated regularly in the Paris Salon.

Baron Victor Eugène de Papeleu (actually Papeleu de Poelvoorde) came from a wealthy Ghent family and was not only important as a painter, but also as an art collector. He was one of the owners of the Angelus which he sold to Stevens. This "distinguished" amateur spent his entire fortune creating a gallery of paintings which he was forced to sell, little by little, out of financial necessity.

Travels take him from before 1845, among others in the East.

In 1853 the budding artist moved to Paris, and in 1855 his first stay in Barbizon is documented. Papeleu meets Camille Corot, Félix Ziem, Théodore Rousseau and Jean-François Millet, so he must have received lessons from Jules Dupré. In 1867, he bought a house in Barbizon and then moved to Provence. Papeleu undertakes a second trip to the Orient before 1875