French painter Eugène Galien-Laloue [1854-1941] was born in Paris on 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter. His paintings o f the early 1900s accurately represent the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars and its first omnibuses. Galien-Laloue's works are valued not only for their contribution to 20th century art, but for the actual history, which they document.
