Léon Germain Pelouse
Léon Germain Pelouse (1 October 1838 – 31 July 1891) 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 depiction of an often stark, obsessively detailed nature largely devoid of human figures. At the time of his death at age 52 in Paris, Pelouse was "considered one of the great landscape painters of his time."Schubert (2001), p. 129. Life and career Pelouse was born and spent his first eleven years in the small village of Pierrelaye, into a family of little means. In 1849 his family moved to Paris and, five years later, on the death of his father, Léon-Germain, having to earn a living, at sixteen began working as a traveling salesman for his uncle, a draper.Schubert (2001), p. 125.Legrand (1892), p. 45. He began painting as an amateur and took some evening classes. His professional painting career began at age twenty-seven, with the acceptance and e ...
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