Banks of the Loire River
Oil on canvas
11.25 x 18 inches
Signed, lower left
Banks of the Loire River
Artist: Jules Emile Elisee Maclet
Biography of Jules Emile Elisee Maclet ( 1881 - 1962, French )
Jules-Émile Élisée Maclet is famous for his Paris street scenes, much in the tradition that Utrillo would soon follow. Indeed, born in Lihons-en-Santerre, Picardie (April 12, 1881), the artist began his career while still a choirboy. He moved to Montmartre in 1906, after his mother’s death, where he began painting the Montmartre landscape, anticipating the themes that Utrillo would eventually depict, as well as other colorful scenes of the city (and elsewhere in France and Italy). He would have had more works extant today, but he was institutionalized much of the last 30 years of his life.