LUCE, Maximilien
(b. 1858, Paris, 1941, Paris)

Paris Seen from Montmartre

1887
Oil on canvas, 54 x 63 cm
Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva

Maximilien Luce, just beginning a long life and a tremendous output of paintings, drawings, and posters, painted in pointillist style from 1887. He frequently painted streets and buildings in his home city of Paris. Neo-Impressionist technique later constituted only one of the visual options he combined with his exact draughtsmanship.