Collection: Lying Augustus

Auguste Allongé, born March 19, 1833 in Paris and died July 4, 1898 in Bourron-Marlotte, was a French painter, illustrator, watercolorist and engraver. He attended the École impériale des beaux-arts from 1852 in Paris, where he was a student of Léon Cogniet and Ducornet, receiving a medal in 1853. Specializing in landscape, he also taught drawing. In 1873, he published a treatise on the technique of charcoal drawing, translated into several languages. Allongé strove to give charcoal the finish and ambition of finished works, paying particular attention to the effects of light and values. Émile Michel, painter and art critic, expert in charcoal, said about him: "Allongé is charcoal drawing, and charcoal drawing is Allongé." Close to the Barbizon School, he was part of Marlotte's second group. In 1896, his studio was located in Paris at 6, passage Stanislas.

A street in Bourron-Marlotte now bears his name.