Ernest Victor Hareux

He displayed a talent for drawing at the age of ten, and studied with several well known artists, including Charles Busson [fr], Émile Bin and Léon Germain Pelouse.

[1] His first exhibition at the Salon was in 1868, and he gave regular showings there throughout his life; receiving a third-class medal in 1880.

Occasionally, he painted in Normandy, and in La Creuse, where he joined the École de Crozant and met Laurent Guétal, a priest and painter, who invited him to Grenoble in 1887.

[2] He eventually came to favor painting in the mountains; befriending Théodore Ravanat, and other members of the artists' colony at Proveysieux.

He was also associated with the École dauphinoise [fr], which included Charles Bertier and Jean Achard, and was one of the founding members of the "Société des peintres de la montagne".