Alluaud – River Landscape near Crozant

Eugène Alluaud
(1866 Saint-Martin-Terressus – 1947 Crozant)

RIVER LANDSCAPE NEAR CROZANT

Painted around 1900
Oil on canvas
70 x 90 cm

Signed lower left: E. Alluaud

Alluaud came from a dynasty of porcelain manufacturers in Limoges and ran two porcelain factories for architectural elements (friezes, reliefs and bay windows), which made him financially independent. His love was painting. While training at the Académie Julian in Paris (1886 to 1889), he discovered the landscape of the market town of Crozant and Impressionist painting in the summer of 1887 and, inspired by Armand Guillaumin, the founder of the Crozant school, began to paint the wildly romantic landscape between Creuse and Sedelle. From 1905 onwards, he and his wife Marcelle spent every summer there and turned their shared house, ‘La Roca’, into a meeting place for artists in the area. Alluaud exhibited at the Galerie Dalpayrat in Limoges and at Durand-Ruel in Paris, and regularly participated in the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne.