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Jules Paulin Lorillon-E

Paris 7°, March 6th 1836 – January 23rd 1912, Paris 10°

His situation as a Parisian jeweler at 12 Boulevard Magenta seems to indicate that an artistic career was not Jules Paulin Lorillon’s first vocation. However, he became interested in painting late in life and became a student of two landscape painters: Adrien Jacques Sauzay and Alexis Daligé de Fontenay.
In 1881, when he was 45 years old, he exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon with his painting « Wheatfields in Auvers« . He exhibited again in 1882 and 1885 and again at the 1887 and 1888 salons, where he made his last appearance.
He moved to Ecouen on August 14, 1890. He acquired a property near the castle for the sum of 41,500 francs, with its vast shady park, covering an area of 1 hectare and 9 acres (today Charles-de-Gaulle Park) in the street named after his son. From then on, he divided his time between his home in Ecouen, his Parisian apartment and the house he owned in Beaulieu-sur-Mer.
The municipal archives of Ecouen testify to his interest in the village and the way he integrated. From his marriage was born Paul Jean-Baptiste, an industrialist who died on October 23, 1926 in Ecouen. In his will, he left an annuity of 3,600 F to his maid to maintain her grave in the Passy cemetery and bequeathed 100,000 F to the charity office. In recognition of this, the council decided to give his name to a street in the village.

For further information, please read the book “L’Ecole d’Ecouen, une colonie de peintres au XIXe siècle” (bilingual French-English).

Edouard Charles Hugot-E

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Coulange-la-Vineuse, February 6th 1815 – unknown time and location

When he moved to Ecouen, he became a student of Thomas Couture and quickly became famous for his watercolors and etchings. He also excelled in lithography. Twenty-four of his compositions show the Paris-Amiens railway line. Many of his works appear in the inventory of the French collection after 1800 (Department of Prints), with numerous plates of monuments of the Oise, the Aisne and the Somme Counties in particular.

But his works are not limited to these achievements. He also presented at the Paris Salon, between 1835 and 1880, portraits, still lifes, genre scenes and paintings made from historical themes, such as the « Reformist Banquet of Amiens » (before the revolution of 1848), « The Invasion of 1814″ or « Costumes of the time of Louis XIII« .
His presence in Ecouen is doubly attested, in 1864, by a deed of sale of a seven-room property at 1, rue de la Châtaigneraie (now rue Emmanuel Duverger). This house had been a school and a town hall, and cost him 6,500 francs. His name also appears in an article in « The Petit Journal » which relates the funeral convoy of Madame Todd which he attended in 1870.

For further information, please read the book “L’Ecole d’Ecouen, une colonie de peintres au XIXe siècle” (bilingual French-English).

Gaston Paul Haag-E

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Ecouen, May 1st 1877 – June 18th 1931, Ecouen

Gaston Haag belongs to a great family of painters, since he is the son of Jean-Pierre Haag and the son-in-law of Pierre Théophile Thomas, (he married his daughter, on November 17, 1910, Aline Augustine Suzanne, born in Paris XI, on January 9, 1883), both painters of the Ecouen School.

He painted his first canvases in 1896 but does not appear to have exhibited at the Paris Salon. His brother, Maurice, was a decorator and his best man at his wedding. We know of few paintings by him. The collection of the town hall of Ecouen has one: « Promeneur dans le bois d’Ecouen« , dated 1898. The artist died on the Place Jean-Le-Vacher, in the town of his birth.
Haag fils proposed to donate one of his works to the city council, which accepted unanimously.

For further information, please read the book “L’Ecole d’Ecouen, une colonie de peintres au XIXe siècle” (bilingual French-English).

Jean-Pierre Haag-E

Elbeuf, November 5th 1842 – March 5th 1921, Ecouen

Jean-Pierre Haag is the son of Jean Haag, a German mechanic established in Elboeuf and Geneviève Maloizel. He was initially a member of the Norman painters; he also kept a property in the region.
He joined the Ecouen School in 1870 and settled at 29 rue de Paris (now rue du Maréchal Leclerc). He became a student of Pierre Edouard Frère and Léon Dansaert. Shortly afterwards he married Ernestine Juliette Confais. They had several children including Gaston. At their baptism, we find as witnesses the names of Théophile Emmanuel Duverger, Auguste Schenck or Charles Edouard Frère.
He exhibited in Paris for the first time in 1870, with a painting entitled « Interior of a forge in Villiers-le-Bel » and became known there especially from 1877. He was invited there until 1895. He also painted rural life, small trades, scenes of daily life. One of his works, « Gardeuse d’enfants en Normandie » was exhibited in 1980 at the Paris’s Grand Palais. It is now in the Louviers museum along with « Jeu de dominos » which was exhibited in London in April 1989.
In October 1875, with his wife, he rented a house at 36 Route de Paris – Amiens, where a painter’s studio already existed, adjoining the « alley to Boudet ». According to a journalist of the Journal du dimanche of July 17, 1902, he was also very erudite and interested in the heritage of his town: « He possesses precious documents on the castle which raises its imposing mass not far from his home ».
The painting « View of the galleries of the church of Saint-Ouen » was offered by his son to the city of Ecouen.

For further information, please read the book “L’Ecole d’Ecouen, une colonie de peintres au XIXe siècle” (bilingual French-English).

Félix Justin Gardon-E

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Choisy-le-Roi, November 21st 1852 – November 25th 1921, Ecouen

Born into a family of glass and earthenware workers established in Choisy-le-Roi, he began his artistic career as a ceramic painter in Choisy-le-Roi and went to Limoges, his main theme being flowers, where he excelled. He became a student of Emile Bellet and Justin Marie Lequien (1796-1882). He came to Ecouen late, at a time when the artistic movement had lost much of its strength and, as a result, he was not the best known.
He presented still lifes painted on earthenware at the Paris salons in 1882 and 1883. These compositions are six in number. Each real one consists of four tiles aligned horizontally and illustrated with floral motifs. He then exhibited at the salons from 1890 to 1907 paintings and watercolors devoted almost exclusively to floral representations.
Remaining in Paris with his wife Anna Clauss, they moved to Ecouen in 1906, at 10, rue Jacques-Yvon, where one can see tiles with slightly faded colors decorating the top of the windows. That same year, he participated in the Salon des Artistes Français with the Coin de Parc, which earned him honors and remains the most famous of his paintings.
During his lifetime, Gardon offered to donate one of his works to the city, and the council accepted. Later, in 1922, his wife offered a watercolor and his portrait painted by Duffaud to the town of Ecouen.

For further information, please read the book “L’Ecole d’Ecouen, une colonie de peintres au XIXe siècle” (bilingual French-English).

Charles Edouard Frère-E

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Paris 2°, July 10th 1837 – November 2nd 1894, Ecouen

Son of Pierre Edouard Frère and Suzanne Gabrielle Bosquet, he studied first with his father then with Thomas Couture and Alexandre Defaux. He was also the nephew of Théodore Frère, the orientalist.
He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1861 to 1893 where he won two second class medals. He chose landscapes as his themes, then horses in all their attitudes, notably in the farrier’s workshop. His paintings are a mine of information on the farriery from which he drew his inspiration.
In the years 1857,Charles Edouard Frere , with his father, frequented Charles François Daubigny. They often met on the island of Vaux, near Auvers-sur-Oise and on his boat. Moreover, Léonide Bourges, who passed through Ecouen, represents him on an etching aboard Daubigny’s Bottin. He was also a regular at the salons.
On January 8, 1874, by marriage contract, he brought six paintings, a house located at the corner of the rue du Château and the rue de la Beauvette, of 34 a and 19 ca, and another one, ruelle du Frou. His wife brought a trousseau of 12 000 F and an annuity. On January 20, 1874, he married Giulia Augustina Maria Robecchi, born on December 3, 1855 in Paris 2nd district, daughter of Henry Robecchi, a painter and decorator, and Géromina Peviani, living in Paris.
In 1879, he was elected city councilor and was very active in proposing, among other things, an omnibus between the station and the city hall. His father retired from the municipal council at that time.
Near Ecouen, while returning from a work session, Charles Edouard Frère died tragically when he fell from a horse-drawn carriage with horses at full gallop. His death heralded the end of the Ecouen School.

For further information, please read the book “L’Ecole d’Ecouen, une colonie de peintres au XIXe siècle” (bilingual French-English).