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 porcelain manufacturing dynasty from Limoges and operated two porcelain factories for architectural elements (friezes, reliefs, and bay windows), which made him financially independent. His passion was painting. During his 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 began to paint the wild romantic landscape between Creuse and Sedelle, inspired by Armand Guillaumin, the founder of the Crozant school. From 1905, he and his wife Marcelle spent every summer there and made their shared house "La Roca" a meeting point 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.

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