Julien Gustave Gagliardini

Julien Gustave Gaillardin, known as Julien Gustave Gagliardini (1 March 1846, Mulhouse - 28 November 1927, Paris) was a French Impressionist landscape painter and engraver.

He began as a student of the history painter, Claude Soulary [fr], then worked in the studios of Léon Cogniet at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He quickly developed a preference for Auvergne and the south of France; areas that would remain his favorites for the rest of his life.

While working there, he became a close friend of François Nardi, another French artist of Italian ancestry, who encouraged him to use the original form of his family name.

[citation needed] He benefitted from several major government purchases, in 1880, 1891 and 1913.