LUDGER LAROSE. [1868-1915].

Larose studied in Paris at the École des Beaux Arts [1887-1894] under Jules-Élie Delaunay, Jean Paul Laurens, and Gustave Moreau. He was part of a group of young artists (Franchère, Saint-Charles, Beau, Delfosse, etc.) who had been students of the Institute National des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, founded in 1870, by Abbé Joseph Chabert. The purpose of the school was to train artists to do church commissions and as such, Larose came to decorate the Sacred Heart Chapel of Notre Dame, Montreal. A committed teacher (Fortin was one of his student), Larose taught at the Conseil des Arts et Manufactures [1898-99], at the École du Plateux [1894-1910], and at Westmount Public School [1912-15]. Though an academically trained painter, he was sensitive to impressionist colour and technique (particularly in his smaller paintings and landscapes). A painter of still-lifes, genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes, Larose painted extensively in the Laurentians. The artist died at the age of 47 in Montreal.

Provenance: Galerie Gauvreau, Montreal, label on verso, [Giles Gauvreau formerly worked at Dominion Gallery].

Bibliography: Broude. World Impressionism; Laliberté, Les Artistes de Mon Temps; MacDonald. Dictionary of Canadian Artists, vol.3.

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