Léon Germain Pelouse
French artist (1838-1891) · France · On the map · Artists · Died at 52
Léon Germain Pelouse was a largely self-taught painter born in Pierrelaye, France. His work was most often said to descend from that of Corot and Daubigny, but was from the beginning unique in its depiction of an often stark, obsessively detailed nature largely devoid of human figures.
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![Léon Germain Pelouse in his atelier, painted by Émile-Louis Foubert [fr] in 1891, the year Pelouse died at age 52.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/%C3%89mile-Louis_Foubert_-_L%C3%A9on_Germain_Pelouse_dans_son_atelier_1891.Jpeg/500px-%C3%89mile-Louis_Foubert_-_L%C3%A9on_Germain_Pelouse_dans_son_atelier_1891.Jpeg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Léon Germain Pelouse in his atelier, painted by Émile-Louis Foubert [fr] in 1891, the year Pelouse died at age 52.
La Vallée de Cernay, 1873, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque.
Une Coupe de bois à Senlisse, 1876, Pierrelaye town hall.
P.S. Krøyer, Le Déjeuner des artistes à Cernay-la-Ville, 1879. Pelouse is the standing figure at right.
A portrait of Pelouse from Le Monde Illustré, 1891.
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At the time of his death at age 52 in Paris, Pelouse was "considered one of the great landscape painters of his time."
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France
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1838 to 1891 · aged 52
