Galerie Paul Prouté

Admitted to the painting section of the Ecole Impériale des Beaux-Arts on September 7, 1852, Auguste Allongé initially turned to history painting and was taught by Léon Cogniet and Louis Joseph César Ducornet. However, his failure at the Prix de Rome made him change his pictorial genre. He then tried his hand at landscape painting, and his representations of the forest of Fontainebleau – executed during stays in Marlotte where he settled in 1876 – made his reputation. Close to the Barbizon School, he was part of the Marlotte group, which brought together independent landscape painters who wished to paint from life. His mastery of charcoal led him to write two technical courses on charcoal drawing in 1873 which were very successful in their time. He also realized some lithographs which were not put in the market, several etchings as well as drawings for the wood engravers of the newspapers l’Illustration and Le Monde Illustré. From 1890 on, he exhibited at the Salon almost exclusively works on the forest of Fontainebleau. He died in his house in Marlotte on July 4, 1898.