Painter · French
Attested lodger
Gustave Loiseau
A Post-Impressionist known for his “trellis” brushwork and his landscapes of the Eure valley.
- Dates1865 — 1935
- NationalityFrench
- DisciplinePainter
- Place of birthParis, France
Biography
Apprenticed to a decorator, he entered the École des arts décoratifs in 1887, left after a year following a disagreement with his teacher, then received private tuition from the landscape painter Fernand Quignon. He discovered Pont-Aven in 1890 and worked there regularly. After a brief pointillist phase he developed his personal “trellis” technique of crosshatched strokes. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1893.
Giverny
His presence in the Eure valley is attested by one work, “L’Eure en hiver”, held at the Musée d’Orsay. The detail of his Norman stays could not be established: the link is one of subject, not of biography.
Relation with the Hôtel Baudy
Two days, 2 and 3 March 1899: “G. Loiseau, 34 ans, Paris”. It is brief, and it is written down.
Principal works
Key points
- 1865Born — Paris, France
- Giverny2 and 3 March 1899
- 1935Died
Sources
- 01Musée d’Orsay, notice d’œuvre « L’Eure en hiver », inv. RF 1977 228
- 02Musée d’Orsay, notice biographique de Gustave Loiseau
- 03Hôtel Baudy guest register, “Registre pour inscrire les voyageurs”, Philadelphia Museum of Art; transcribed by Carol Lowrey in William H. Gerdts, Monet’s Giverny, Abbeville Press, 1993, pp. 222-227.