Eugène Galien Laloue Signed L. Dupuy (1854-1941) Pair Of Animated Landscapes. Cortès Paris Barbizon

Nice pair of oils/panels by Eugène Galien Laloue signed L. Dupuy representing animated scenes in countryside landscapes, both signed. Size of each painting alone without the frame 22x15.5cm These are therefore 2 compositions datable to the end of the 19th or the very beginning of the 20th century by Eugène Galien Laloue therefore signed L. Dupuy one of his most famous pseudonyms. He creates countryside landscapes animated by characters, probably painted in the greater Parisian suburbs, Fontainebleau, Marlotte etc ... On one signed lower left we can see two peasant women near a body of water on the edge of a village, on the second we still see two characters but this time on the banks of a stream signed lower right. His touch and his drawing are typical of an extreme finesse, as is his coloring in tones of brown, green, sky blue, enhanced by a few touches of red/orange, white or blue. Eugène Galien-Laloue, common name of Eugène Gallien Laloue, also known under the pseudonyms of Léon Dupuy, Eugène Dupuy, Juliany, Eugène Galiany, Jacques Liévin, Eugène Lemaitre, Maurice Lenoir, Dumoutier and A.Languinais, is a French painter and engraver born in Paris on December 11, 1854 and died in Chérence on April 18, 1941. He is famous for his Parisian urban landscapes. His father, the painter and stage decorator Charles Laloue, married Marie Eudoxie Lambert in Paris at Batignolles on December 29, 1853. Eugène Gallien Laloue was born on December 11 of the following year in Montmartre, rue Léonie. He was baptized the following January in the parish of Saint-Pierre de Montmartre. He was a student of Léon Germain Pelouse (1838-1891), a painter from the Barbizon School, whose influence he was under but without being part of it. After his father's death in 1870, he had to leave school to look for work, being the eldest of a family of nine boys. His mother placed him with a notary. Lying about his age, he enlisted to fight in the War of 1870. In 1874, he lived on rue de Clignancourt, he was recruited by the Société française des chemins de fer to draw the route of the tracks from Paris to the provincial stations; He took the opportunity to paint the surrounding landscapes, then the districts of Paris, of which he produced a considerable number of gouaches, taking care to respect the outline of the perspective of the buildings. He varied the tone of the sky, the appearance of the trees and the lighting according to the seasons by animating the places with characters, particularly fond of the effects of wet sidewalks in the rain or snow. His work is also closely linked to the landscapes of villages in the Parisian countryside. In 1874, he stayed in Fontainebleau where he painted sunsets and sunrises, as well as scenes of farmyards, farmyards in Samois-sur-Seine, in the company of Charles Jacque and Léon Dupuy, an artist who would not make a career, but whose name Eugène Galien-Laloue would take as a pseudonym, giving him a second life to make him known in artistic circles. On the Butte Montmartre, he painted La Foire de Montmartre, Place Pigalle, as well as the construction site of the Sacré-Cœur. In 1879, he married Flore Bardin (1861-1887) who gave him a son on July 3, 1880, whom they named Fernand. In 1892, he married his first wife's sister, Ernestine Bardin, for the second time, who gave him a daughter, Flore Marie Agnès, on February 4, 1893. That same year, he worked at the Bateau-Lavoir, but his solitary nature did not suit this place. When the First World War broke out, he was not mobilized because of his voluntary enlistment in 1870 and his age, but he made many drawings, watercolors of military scenes in 1914. His daughter left the paternal home after her marriage in 1919. Ernestine Bardin died in 1925. He then married the third sister of his previous wives, Claire Bardin, in 1930. Widowed again in 1933, he moved in with his daughter Flore in 1935. In 1940 he left for Bordeaux, no longer able to paint because of a broken arm. He painted landscapes of Normandy, Seine-et-Marne, Marseille, Italy and Venice. The pictorial production of this artist, under his name or pseudonym, was plentiful, and his commercial success attracted imitators whose pastiches are common on the art market. He had two studios in Montmartre: one at 4 rue Ravignan in 1877, and the second at 24 rue Houdon where he worked in 1886. In 1906 he moved to Fontainebleau. He died on April 18, 1941 in his daughter's country house, in Chérence (Val-d'Oise), and was buried in the municipal cemetery. These 2 paintings are in their original condition and frames, in good condition they would just deserve a little cleaning, the one representing 2 characters near a stream has 5 or 6 wormholes, but the panel has been treated, these can be very easily restored but personally I won't touch it, it's up to each to see. The gilded frames are quite tired. Works guaranteed authentic Price for a painting 260€ or 480€ for both, your choice