

In 1900, he participated in the decoration of the restaurant the Blue Train from Gare de Lyon in Paris.

He receives the order decorations City Hall Saint-Cloud and the hall of the Ministry of Justice 4. In 1891, he burns paintings which he is not satisfied. Landscapes, portraits bright, also influenced by Puvis de Chavannes, meet an immediate success in the National Society of Fine Arts. On the advice of his friend Felix Bracquemond, it intensifies the colors of his palette and draws his subjects in the wake of the fête galante of Antoine Watteau and genre scenes of François Boucher. In 1889, Gaston La Touche painted Strike at Anzin, parade workers inspired by Emile Zola 3. His first painting, The Lady of the Fifth, was admitted to the Salon of 1881. Starting in the 1880s, he painted intimate scenes in the Dutch style of XVII th century. There is also a meeting of Émile Zola he admires and he illustrates stories and novels as The Dram. Between 18, he met Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet which he attended the workshop 2, Duranty and Marcellin Desboutin who meet at the New Athens cafe in Paris.

In 1875, he entered the room with a bas-relief medallion portrait of Francois Jules Edmond Got actor and dean of the Comédie-French, and a few etchings in a vein naturalist. These courses are permanently interrupted by the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 when the family finds refuge in Normandy, Champsecret in Orne. Paul, an art teacher for three francs month. Her parents to take drawing lessons from ten years under the leadership , it nourishes an early passion and vocation for painting and convinced
