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]

By his adoption of his wife's son, Lucien Jean Léon Raingo-Pelouse, he was the grandfather of the French artist Germain Raingo-Pelouse [fr] (1893-1963; their lifespans did not overlap).

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

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  Les Premieres Feuilles
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  Grandcamp at low tide, 1884
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  Forest at dusk, 1885

References

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

• Léon Germain Pelouse at cernaylaville.fr

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