Maximilien Luce (1858-1941)

Aliases: Maximilian Luce; Maximilien Jules Luce

Professions: Painter; Lithographer; Landscape painter

La Seine au pont Saint-Michel
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Maximilien Luce (1858-1941)
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Maximilien Luce Biography

(b Paris, 13 March 1858; d Paris, 7 Feb 1941). French painter and printmaker. He was born and brought up in the working-class surroundings of Montparnasse, and an interest in the daily routines and labours of the petit peuple of Paris informs much of his art. After an apprenticeship with the wood-engraver Henri Théophile Hildebrand (b 1824), in 1876 he entered the studio of the wood-engraver Eugène Froment where he assisted in the production of engravings for various French and foreign publications such as L’Illustration and The Graphic . He also sporadically attended classes at the Académie Suisse and in the studio of Carolus-Duran. In Froment’s studio he came into contact with the artists Léo Gausson and Emile-Gustave Péduzzi (Cavallo-Péduzzi; 1851–1917) and in their company began painting landscape subjects in and around the town of Lagny-sur-Marne.

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