Auguste Allongé (1833-1898), Landscape With Animated Hamlet, Large Watercolor, Drawing

Auguste Allongé (Paris 1833-Bourron-Marlotte 1898)
Landscape with animated hamlet: drawing
Watercolor
50 x 32.5 cm (at sight)
71 x 53 cm (frame)
Signed lower left: Lying
Good condition - some stains - frame/ modern baguette

Auguste Allongé attended the Ecole Impériale des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1852. He was a student of Léon Cogniet and Ducornet. He received a medal in 1853. A landscape painter, he taught drawing. In 1873 he published a treatise on the technique of charcoal drawing translated into several languages. Noticing that charcoal is most often only used for sketches, he tried to give this art the finish and ambition of completed works. He is sensitive to the effects of light, he replaces color with a very fine study of values. Close to the Barbizon School, he is part of Marlotte's second group.