Boulevard in Paris
Eugène Galien-Laloue was a French painter and engraver, born in Paris on 11 December 1884, renowned for his paintings of Paris.
Paris: Place de la Concorde
He was the son of Charles Laloue, a theatre decorator, and Marie Eudoxie Lambert.
Paris: Boulevade Parisien
In 1870, his father died and he had to leave school to find work, as he was the eldest of 9 children.
Paris: Arc de Triomphe
His mother placed him with a solicitor.
Paris: Un coin de quai
He lied about his age to enlist for the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.
Paris: Quai de l'Orloge Flower Sellers
In 1874, he was recruited to lay out the railway lines from Paris to the provincial stations.
Paris: Gare de Lyon
He took the opportunity to paint the neighbouring countryside,
Paris: Catédral Notre-Dame de Paris
then the districts of Paris, of which he produced a considerable number of gouaches.
Paris: Le Marché aux Fleurs
He particularly favoured depicting pavements wet with rain or covered with snow.
Paris: Notre-Dame vu du quai Saint-Michel
His work was also tightly linked to the landscapes of the Ile-de-France.
Paris: Le Metro
In 1874, he visited Fontainebleau, where he painted the risings and settings of the sun,
Paris: Marché aux Fleurs, Place de la Madeleine
as well as farmyard scenes, barnyards at Samois-sur-Seine, in company with Charles Jacques and Léon du Pupuy.
Paris: Marché par la Seine
In 1879 he married Flore Bardin, who bore him a son, Fernand. In 1892 he married his first wife’s sister, Ernestine Bardin, who bore him a girl, Flore Marie Arnés.
Paris: Autre marché par la Seine
At the start of the First World War, he was not called up on account of his enlistment in 1870 and because of his age,
Paris: Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle
but he made a great many drawings and watercolours of military scenes in 1914.
Paris: Porte Saint-Denis
Ernestine died in 1925. He then married the third sister of his previous wives, Claire Bardin, in 1930.
Paris: Station de Métro
Widowed once more in 1933, he went to live with his daughter Flore in 1935.
Paris: Des péniches sur la Seine
In 1940, he left for Bordeaux, no longer able to paint because of a broken arm.
Paris: Place de la Bastille
He died on the 18th of April 1941, in the country house of his daughter at Chérence and was buried there.
Paris: Porte Saint-Martin
Paris: Une soirée au Moulin Rouge
Paris: Porte Saint-Martin
Paris à la tombée de la nuit
La Moulin Rouge la nuit en hiver
La Moulin Rouge la nuit en hiver
Eugène Galien-Laloue
1854-1941
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