Edmond Eugène Valton

Who was Edmond Eugène Valton?

Edmond-Eugène Valton, French painter, draughtsman and illustrator. He studied with Felix Fossey, and at the École des Beaux Arts, under Célestin Nanteuil, Paul Delaroche, Merry-Joseph Blondel David d'Angers and Thomas Couture. He was one of the founder members of the Société des Artistes Indépendants in 1904 and in 1909 president.

His work is kept in

-Musée d’Orsay, in the National Gallery of Art in Washington,

-Institut de France -Museum Grey

-Museum Longwy,.

-Croatian private collection.

For Valton drawing was perhaps the most important artistic discipline. He was an art teacher at the École Germain Pilon. He was the author of three books about drawing.

Valton documented with the classical artistic language the changes that industrialisation had brought into his world. With a modern language, he recorded the endangered and almost metaphisical landscapes of the Île-de-France.