Pierre Ernest Ballue

Pierre Ernest Ballue (27 February 1855 – 18 May 1928) was a French landscape painter and designer, associated with the Barbizon School.

There he studied art with Alexandre Defaux, Émile Charles Dameron [fr], and Camille Corot.

His favored place for painting was Touraine, but he travelled throughout France, to the Côte d'Azur, the area around Crozant, and in Fresselines.

In 1886, he was one of the artists who accompanied Auguste Bartholdi to the United States, to celebrate the inauguration of the Statue of Liberty.

During World War II, she and André were members of the Resistance.