Léon Germain Pelouse

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Léon Germain Pelouse in his atelier, painted by Émile-Louis Foubert in 1891, the year Pelouse died.

Léon Germain Pelouse (1 October 1838 – 31 July 1891) was a self-taught French painter born in Pierrelaye (Val-d'oise, France).[1] At sixteen, he began working as a traveling salesman. He began painting when he was twenty, as he was serving in the French army as a conscript.[2] His professional painting career began at twenty-seven, with the exhibition of his Les Environs de Précy (Near Précy) at the Salon de Paris of 1865.[3] Despite severe criticism, he continued painting. He moved to Brittany, and there, inspired by nature around Pont-Aven and Rochefort-en-Terre, Pelouse painted landscapes which were exhibited at the Salon de Paris in the following years. He received his first medal in 1873 for Vallée de Cernay (Cernay Valley).[4] He finally gained success and critical approval. The French government bought many of his works which are now in the holdings of museums including the Musée d'Orsay,[5] the Musée Malraux, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes.[6]

Pelouse and his friends and students who socialized and painted together in the region have become known as the  [fr].

References[]

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Grandcamp at low tide, 1884
  1. ^ Champlin, "Pelouse, Léon Germain"
  2. ^ Grand Palais, p.148.
  3. ^ Fresneau, p. 99.
  4. ^ Jules Claretie, Peintres et sculpteurs contemporains, Paris, Charpentier, 1874, p. xi.
  5. ^ Musée d'Orsay, Aux couleurs de la mer : Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 6 novembre 1999-16 janvier 2000. , Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999, p. 65.
  6. ^ "Pelouse Léon Germain", Portail des collections des musées de France, Paris, Joconde, 2013

Further reading[]

  • Champlin, John Denison. Cyclopedia of painters and paintings, New York: Scribner, 1892.
  • de Lassus, Priscille. "Pelouse, Chef de File" in Vallée de Chevreuse: le Petit Moulin des Vaux de Cernay, L'Object d'Art Hors-Série no. 106, Dijon: Éditions Faton, Sept. 2016, pp.40-43.
  • Dutat, Dimitri. "La colonie de Cernay, trois générations d’artistes" in Vallée de Chevreuse: le Petit Moulin des Vaux de Cernay, L'Object d'Art Hors-Série no. 106, Dijon: Éditions Faton, Sept. 2016, pp. 20-27.
  • Fresneau, Estelle. Pont-Aven : du paysage à l'œuvre, Pont-Aven: Musée de Pont-Aven, 2007.
  • Grand Palais. Le Musee du Luxembourg en 1874. Peintures, Paris: Grand Palais, 1974.
  • Harambourg, Lydia. Cernay, une étape pour les paysagistes de Barbizon, catalogue on the exposition at the Centre Culturel Léon-Germain Pelouse de Cernay-la-Ville, 1997.
  • Levesque, Patrick and Stéphan, Édouard. Léon Germain Pelouse, 1838-1891, Catalogue Raisonné, Cernay-la-Ville: Chez l'Auteur, 2005.
  • Schubert, Philippe and Schubert, France. Les peintres de la Vallée de Chevreuse, Paris: Éditions de l’Amateur, 2001.

External links[]

  • "website dedicated to Pelouse". Retrieved June 30, 2020.[dead link]


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