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During the early 1850s he lived in Barbizon where he painted a number of landscapes of the forest of Fontainebleau, these were exhibited at the Salon. Several years later he painted a number of views of Moret-sur-Loing, where Alfred Sisley spent the last twenty years of his life. He was a true painter of the Barbizon group, and was friends with Diaz, Théodore Rousseau, Millet and Chintreuil. Lavieille was made Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1878. A retrospective was held in 1913. George Petit wrote that: “Lavielle occupies a place after Corot, Daubigny and Rousseau and undoubtedly deserves it. He was a delicate painter and his works…merit attention and admiration by experts”. |
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