Larrue, born in Bordeaux, studied with Alexandre Cabanel. He was known as a painter of interiors, genre, portraits, landscapes and urban scenes, especially views in and around Paris. Larrue first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1879. He was elected a member of the Artistes Français in 1889, won an honorable mention in 1892 and a bronze medal at the Universal Exposition of 1900. In 1901 he was named an associate of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. His painting, Salle égyptienne du Louvre. devant le Grand Sphinx (The Egyptian Room of the Louvre, Before the Large Sphinx) is in the permanent collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.  

Listed: E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Gründ, Paris, 1999 and Gérald Schurr and Pierre Cabanne, Dictionnaire des Petits Maîtres de la peinture, 1820-1920, Les Éditions de l’Amateur, Paris, 1996.  

 

 

Guillaume Larrue  1851-1935
Interior at Versailles with Two Portraits and a Bust on a Table
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower right: "Larrue"
Canvas size: 28 3/4 X 23 3/4 inches

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