Eugène Galien-Laloue was a French

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 artist of French-Italian

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 parents and was born in Paris

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 on December 11, 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter.

His paintings of the early 1900s accurately represent the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque

La Belle Epoque

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, with horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars and its first omnibuses

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. Galien-Laloue's works are valued not only for their contribution to 20th century art, but for the actual history, which they document. His work can be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts

Musée des Beaux-Arts

"Musée des Beaux Arts" is the title of a poem by W. H. Auden from 1938. The poem's title derives from the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels which contains the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, thought until recently to be by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, though still...

, Louvier; Musée des Beaux-Arts

Musée des Beaux-Arts

"Musée des Beaux Arts" is the title of a poem by W. H. Auden from 1938. The poem's title derives from the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels which contains the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, thought until recently to be by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, though still...

, La Rochelle

La Rochelle

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; Mulhouse, France.

A typical Galien-Laloue painting depicts sidewalk

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s and avenues crowded with people or tourists mingling before the capital's monument

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s. He also painted the landscape

Landscape

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s of Normandy

Normandy

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 and Seine-et-Marne

Seine-et-Marne

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, as well as military scenes he was commissioned to produce in 1914. The Republic of France selected Galien-Laloue to work as a 'war artist,' both during the Franco-Prussian War

Franco-Prussian War

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 and World War I

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, chiefly in watercolor.

Galien Laloue was in exclusive contract with one gallery and used 5 other names: "L.Dupuy", "Juliany", "E.Galiany", "Lievin" and "Dumoutier".

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