Painter · French
Around Giverny
Germain Raingo-Pelouse
A landscape painter of the Seine at Vernonnet, a few kilometres from Giverny, and a relative of Claude Monet by marriage.
- Dates1893 — 1963
- NationalityFrench
- DisciplinePainter
- Place of birthParis, France
Biography
Trained at the École des beaux-arts in Paris from 1910 to 1913 in the studios of Fernand Cormon and Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin, he was principally a landscape painter but also worked in portraiture, the nude and still life. Critics of his day called his manner “classical-modern”. Works are held at the Musée Alphonse-Georges Poulain in Vernon and at the Centre national des arts plastiques.
Giverny
He remained attached to Vernonnet, a hamlet of Vernon on the Seine a few kilometres from Giverny, whose landscapes make up an important part of his work. His double surname comes from a family history: after Ernest Raingo’s death his widow married the landscape painter Léon Germain Pelouse, and the son joined his adoptive father’s name to his own.
Relation with the Hôtel Baudy
No source connects him to the Hôtel Baudy, and the chronology rules it out: he was born in 1893, well after the boarding house’s heyday. He appears here for another reason. His paternal grandfather, Ernest Raingo, was the elder brother of Alice Hoschedé, née Raingo, who married Claude Monet in 1892: he was therefore Monet’s great-nephew by marriage, with no blood tie. This genealogy rests on a single encyclopaedic source, repeated since by the art market; it calls for verification in civil records.
Principal works
Key points
- 1893Born — Paris, France
- GivernyAttached to Vernonnet, on the Seine
- 1963Died