Gustave Loiseau

Background

Loiseau was born in Paris, France, on October 3, 1865. His parents owned a butcher shop.

Education

Gustave told his parents about his desire to become an artist. His parents soon sold their business and retired to Pontoise. In the year 1887, Gustave Loiseau received a legacy from his grandmother, which allowed him to concentrate on painting. He enrolled in the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs where he studied life-drawing. But the following year he left the school because of an argument with his teacher. He then invited the landscape painter Fernand Just Quignon to tutor him in painting. However, he was disappointed by both his approach and his methods. He felt that Quignon's process of painting lacked spontaneity, freshness and intensity.

Career

Loiseau went to Pont-Aven for the first time in May of 1890. There he rented a room in the cheapest pension in the village. It was at the Pension Gloanec that Gustav Loiseau met the artists Maxime Maufra and Henry Moret. He and Maufra had much in common and quickly became friends.

After his experimenting with Pointillism, Gustav Loiseau adopted his own approach to Post-Impressionism, painting landscapes directly from nature. Both Moret and Maufra convinced Loiseau to present his works at the Salon des Indépendants in 1891 and 1892. In 1891, Maxime Maufra introduced Loiseau to Le Barc de Boutteville, who was an art dealer in the rue Le Pelletier in Paris and supporter of young artists.

After spending the summer of 1894 in Brittany, Loiseau returned to Paris and contacted Paul Durand-Ruel, the prestigious Paris art dealer who represented Claude Monet and was the leading art dealer of the Impressionists. Durand-Ruel started to handle Loiseau's work in 1894, the year when he ceased his exhibiting at Le Barc de Boutteville. Gustav Loiseau's connection with Durand-Ruel enabled him to travel more extensively and discover the regions and subjects that would inspire him for the rest of his career.

In the spring of 1895, Loiseau moved to Moret-sur-Loing. Starting from that time, Gustav Loiseau became one of the most sincere interpreters of the French landscape. He travelled through Normandy, Brittany, and the Dordogne in summer, returning to the Île-de-France each winter.

Gustav Loiseau produced many of his works in Pontoise. In 1904, he worked in a fine studio, which was built in his garden there. A number of his canvases during this period depicted the views from his studio. After the year 1899, he also often painted in Saint-Cyr-du-Vaudreuil on the banks of the Eure. Moreover, he visited Saint-Herbot and Le Huelgoat in 1903, Cap Fréhel in 1905 and 1906 and Douarnenez-Tréboul in 1913.

The painter's technique changed during the 1910s, which later became his speciality. From the 1920s, he painted many still-lifes. In his later years, he divided his time between his studio in Pontoise and a new studio in Paris. Loiseau created a series of artworks of the capital city.

Achievements

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  From the late 19th century, Gustav Loiseau enjoyed a great international success, with patrons both in the United States and in Europe collecting his work. Loiseau's paintings were represented in public and private collections, and important galleries in Paris, the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Works

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  • By the Oise at Parmain

  • Oise at Pontoise

  • Port of Fecamp

  • Cliffs at Yport

  • Jetty at Fecamp

  • Village in sun on the river

  • Port at Dieppe

  • Ice on the Oise River

  • By the Eure River Mist Effect

  • Cliffs at Grainval

  • Cliffs at Saint Jouin

  • Sails on the Oise

  • House of the Sisters in Pontoise

  • Houses near the Eure

  • View of Notre Dame

  • Village Road in Autumn

  • Cliffs by the Sea

  • The Normandy River

  • In the Mountains

  • Village in Snow

  • Paper Mill at Port Marly

  • Cart in an Autumn Landscape

  • House at Beynac

  • Cliffs at Cape Frehel

  • Landscape in a Valley

  • Flood at Nantes

  • Cliffs by the Sea

  • By the Eure River Hoarfrost

  • Grand Quay, Fecamp

  • Alley of Poplars

  • Fecamp Gray Weather

  • Ice on the Oise River

  • By the Oise River

  • Cap Frehel

  • Petit Dalles at Normandy

  • Hoarfrost near Pontoise

  • The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Herblay

  • Church at Notre Dame at Vaudreuil

  • Landscape

  • River Bend in Normandy

  • Garden by the House

  • Landscape in Snow

  • Auxerre Cathedral

  • Quay at Dieppe

  • The House

  • The Church of St. Gervais

  • Landscape in Winter with Fog

  • Landscape in Snow

  • By the Eure River Fog Effect

  • Banks of the Seine in Summer, Tournedos sur Seine

  • Overcast Weather at Nesles la Vallee

  • Coast at Chaponival

  • Cliffs of Puy

  • Thatched Cottage

  • By the Oise at Precy

  • Willows, Banks of the Oise

  • Autumn near Saint Cyr du Vaudreuil

  • By the Eure River

  • Quay at Dieppe

  • Spring

  • Ice on the Oise river

  • The Seine at Port Marly

  • Cligancourt Street

  • The Port at Collioure

  • By the Eure River in Spring

  • Port Pinche at the Turn of the Seine

  • Near Pontoise

  • The Auxerre Cathedral

  • Near Saint Cyr

  • A Bend in the Eure

  • Hoarfrost at Huelgoat, Finistere

  • Breton landscape

  • Landscape of Seine et Oise

  • The River in Autumn

  • Grainville Cliff near Fecamp

  • By the Eure River in Summer

  • The Pointe de L Ile Under Water

  • Flowering Orchard, Spring

  • By the Seine Stormy Weather

  • Boats on the Seine

  • Beach at Fecamp

  • Rue a Ennery

  • In the Woods

  • Quay of Pothius in Pontoise

  • Martigues

  • Fish market at the Port of Dieppe

  • By the Eure River in Summer

  • Landscape, near Auxerre

  • Boats on the Seine at Oissel

  • Church at Notre Dame by the Eure

  • Fish Market at the Port of Dieppe

  • Village Street, Vaudreuil

  • Apple Trees in October

  • By the River Eure

  • Port at Dieppe

  • Cliffs at Fecamp

  • Pont Tourant at Dieppe

  • Houses at Pontoise

  • The Pont Henri IV Notre Dame de Paris in the Snow

  • Ice on the Oise river

  • Rock Cliffs by the Sea in Britain

  • Houses in Normandy

  • Etretat

  • The Garden Behind the House

  • Veslez

  • Port of Dieppe

  • The Garden

  • At the Coast of Normandy

  • Suspended bridge at Triel

  • Barges on the Oise

  • Poplars by the Eau River

  • By the Eure River in Autumn

  • Farm in Normandy

  • Canal at Moret

  • Quay on Oise in Pontoise

  • Willows in Fog

  • The Pont Marie de Paris

  • Paris Wagram Avenue

  • Waterfall at St. Martin

  • The Rocks of Saint Lunaire

  • Cliffs of Etretat

  • The Port of Pornic

  • Ships at Port

  • Cliffs at Saint Jouin

  • By the Eure River in Autumn

  • By the Oise River

  • Arc de Triomphe in the Snow

  • Flood Near Nantes

  • A Cove at Sevignies

  • Landscape with House

  • Road to Versailles

  • Flowers and a Statuette

  • Pont Aven, Grey Weather

  • Etretat. The Battery Point.

  • Pothius Quay in Pontoise

  • The Oise in Winter

  • Fog, Morning Effect

  • Cliffs in Normandy Evening

  • By the Oise River

  • La Banche

  • By the Eure River

  • By the Eure River in Summer

  • Cligancourt street

  • L'Hermitage in Pontoise

  • The Auxerre Cathedral

  • House of Monsieur de Irvy near Vaudreuil

  • Path near Saint Cyr Vaudreuil

  • By the River Eure

  • Woods by the Oise River

  • Port Joie at the Seine

  • Small Arm of the Seine Near Connelle

  • Spring

  • Beynac Quay at Bordeaux

  • Village in Spring

  • House in the Country

  • Port Corneille at Rouen

  • Tournedos sur Seine

  • Trees by the River

  • Cliffs at Cape Frehel

  • Cliffs at Petit Dalles, Normandy

  • Winter

  • Notre Dame de la Clarte

  • Etretat

  • Poplars by the Eure River

  • By the Lorne River near Caen

  • Spring Landscape

  • By the Loing River

  • Cliffs at Fecamp in Normandy

  • Grand Quay at Fecamp

  • Waterfall at Saint Martin Pontoise

  • By the River in Autumn

  • Laundry on the Seine at Herblay

  • River in Autumn

  • Landscape with Poplars

  • Pont Neuf in the Snow

  • House by the Water

  • Woods Near Eure River

  • Sailboats near the Cliffs at Yport

  • Vase of Flowers

  • Field and Hills

  • L’Avant Port De Fecamp

  • Castle by the Sea

  • Hendreville by the Eure River

  • Beach at Fecamp

  • Poplars on the Banks of the Eure

  • Landscape in Autumn

  • Cliffs in Gray Weather

  • By the Sea

  • White Frost

  • By the Orne River near Caen

  • Cligancourt Street in Paris

  • The Small Bourgeois House

  • By the Eure River

  • Fecamp

  • The Auxerre Cathedral

  • Les Martigues

  • Port Joie

  • Cliffs in Normandy

  • Self-Portrait with Statuette

References

• Gustave Loiseau: Paintings Gustave Loiseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets. His paintings, revealing his passion for the seasons from the beginning of spring to the harvests later in the autumn, often depict the same orchard or garden scene as time goes by. Series of this kind, which also include cliffs, harbors or churches, are reminiscent of Claude Monet.
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• Gustave Loiseau (1865-1935)
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• 19th & 20th Century European Art Artists Featured Include: John Clayton Adams; Fabio Cipolla; Julien Dupre; Eugene Galien-Laloue; Gustave Loiseau; Peder Mork Monsted; Pierre Eugene Montezin; Franz Verhas; Jules Jacques Veyrassat; etc.
  2002
• Impressionist & Modern Day Art Sale Morning Artists Featured Include: Pierre Bonnard; Eugene Boudin; Marc Chagall; Raoul Dufy; Andre Lhote; Gustave Loiseau; Pable Picasso; Maurice de Vlaminck; Edouard Vuillard; Henri Matisse; Maximilien Luce; Fernand Leger; Edgar Degas; Auguste Rodin; Theo Van Rysselberghe; etc.
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