Léon Germain Pelouse
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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 dep
![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)
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.
Barbizon School
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The Barbizon School is the name given to oil painters and others who were part of an art movement advancing Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. Ro
Léon Germain Pelouse
…the acknowledged chef de file and "le plus Cernaysien" of landscape painters. Often compared and contrasted to the realist landscape painters of the Barbizon school, for his paintings of Brittany Pelouse was "counted among the artists known as 'Les Barbizon bretons'". Paradoxically, the largely self-taught Pelouse…
Corot, Road by the Water, c. 1865–70, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute
Charles-François Daubigny, The Pond at Gylieu, 1853
Théodore Rousseau, Becquigny, Somme, c. 1857
The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet, 1857. Musée d'Orsay, Paris