Georges Laugée

Georges Paul François Laurent Laugée was a French painter born December 19, 1853 in Montivilliers (Seine-Maritime) and died December 5, 1937 in Boullarre (Oise).

He was a pupil of his father Désiré François Laugée and was a friend of Jean-François Millet.

Georges Laugée is the youngest of the three children born of the marriage, on May 14, 1850, of the painter Désiré François Laugée (1823-1896) and Célestine Marie Malézieux (1825-1909), his eldest being Marie Éléonore Françoise (1851-1937) who will marry in 1876 the painter Julien Dupré (1851-1910), and Laurence (1852-1941) who will marry in 1881 his cousin Jules Malézieux (1851-1906).

Georges Laugée was introduced to painting in his father's studio frequented by Philibert Léon Couturier and Julien Dupré. In 1870, he entered with the latter at the School of Fine Arts in Paris in the workshops of Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann. He began at the Salon of 1877 in Paris.

Frequenting the region of Saint-Quentin and the village of Nauroy (Aisne) where the Malézieux had their family roots - it was three marriages that then united the Laugées and the Malézieux - and where, "as a belated disciple of Romanticism who granted his models a great nobility of allure", he attaches himself to the naturalist painting of peasant life in the fields, Georges Laugée marries Évangéline Jermina Fallet (1858-1958) in the Protestant rite, on February 19, 1887 in Saint-Quentin. On January 22, 1888, their daughter Désirée Françoise was born. On July 18, 1914, she married Professor Edmond Eggli (de) (1881-1956), a specialist in romantic literature, in Nauroy.

In Paris, Georges Laugée successively occupied three studios: at no. 20 boulevard Flandrin, shared with Julien Dupré until the latter's death in 1910; then at no. 23 boulevard Lannes until 1923; finally at no. 123 rue de la Tour from 1923. Around 1930, gradually losing his sight, Georges Laugée retired to the village of Boullarre (Oise) where he died in 1937. He was buried in Paris in the family vault of the cemetery de Passy (1st division).