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119 IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 26 MAY 2025 AT 6PM 84 Eugène Galien-Laloue (French, 1854- 1941) VIEW OF NOTRE-DAME FROM QUAI DE LA TOURNELLE, PARIS watercolour and gouache signed lower left; with Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina) labels on reverse 10.75 by 18in. (27.3 by 45.7cm) Frame Size: 20 by 27 (50.8 by 68.6cm) Provenance: Arturo Uriarte y Piñiero, Buenos Aires; Bequeathed by the above to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 1941; Returned to the descendants of the Uriarte y Piñiero family, 1991; Thence by descent to the present owner Exhibited: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 1941-1991 Eugène Galien-Laloue was a painter and engraver born in Paris in 1854. The eldest of nine children, Galien-Laloue started working for a solicitor to support his family after the death of his father before enrolling for the 1870 Franco- Prussian war. On his return, he took up painting and was offered a job in 1874 by the National Company of French Railways to illustrate rail traffic between Paris and its suburban area. This led him to travel around France where he developed his technique and style as a landscape painter. Affiliated with the impressionist movement, he was well- known for the depiction of lively and bustling Parisian streets and urban surroundings. His paintings often feature important Parisian monuments and means of transportation as seen in the present work in which Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral is represented in the background along with boats on the Seine river. Working predominantly with watercolour, Galien-Laloue produced a significant historical record of the so-called Belle Époque in Paris while popularising street scenes genre. €4,000-€6,000 (£3,390-£5,080 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 84 4