Louis Willaume (1874-1949), Saint-laurent Church In Paris

Oil on canvas representing the Saint-Laurent church in Paris seen from the rue du Faubourg Saint Martin.
Saint-Laurent church in Paris, Louis Willaume (1874-1949)

Work by Louis Willaume signed in the lower left corner.

Louis-Charles Willaume, born May 31, 1874 in Lagny-sur-Marne and died in 1949 in Bois-Colombes, was a French painter, engraver and illustrator.
Pupil of painters William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier, he exhibited for the first time in 1899 at the salon of the National Society of Fine Arts.
In 1920, he received the prize from the Société des paysagistes, then in 1923, the Corot prize.

In 1929, he won the gold medal in the Engravings Section. With Maurice Achener, he actively collaborated in the publishing house of the Société de Saint-Eloy which published in the 1930s the series of "Little towns of France". He is the author of more than 500 etchings, a large collection of which is kept at the BNF's Prints Department. He illustrated a number of works.
The Musée d'Orsay has his painting entitled The Pont des Saints-Pères. A street named after him in Bois-Colombes.