Gustave Loiseau  (French, 1865-1935) 

Gustave Loiseau (French, 1865–1935) was a painter associated with the Impressionist style and best known for his landscapes. He briefly studied modeling and design at the École des Arts Décoratifs and at the studio of landscape painter Fernand Just Quignon in 1889. Loiseau traveled to many regions in France on account of being sponsored by Paul Durand-Ruel, a Parisian art dealer who represented Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley. Loiseau traveled through the valleys of northern France and the Channel coast, spending winters in the Isle-de-France and establishing a base in Pont-Avon, an artists' colony in Brittany. There, Loiseau painted many views of the village’s changing seasons. During visits to Saint-Cyr-du-Vaudreuil on the banks of the Eure, he began a series of poplars that bear strong resemblance to the work of Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley of the same period. In his later years, Loiseau focused on bird’s-eye views of Paris and the Seine Valley. His Avenue de Friedland, Paris and Le port de Dieppe display his characteristic brushwork and a subtle palette. Loiseau’s work is currently held in several museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.