Still Life With Lemons. Maurice Sérullaz. 1948

Maurice Sérullaz, born in Paris on January 19, 1914 and died in Corsica on August 14, 1997, was a painter, art historian and art critic, lecturer at the Ecole du Louvre and professor of general art history at the university. Painting from the age of fourteen, he produced numerous works for the decorator Dumas. In June 1940, with Jacques Jaujard, director of the national museums, and René Huyghe, he organized the refuge in the South of France of 700 paintings from the Louvre Museum (including the Mona Lisa). First curator of the Eugène-Delacroix National Museum, he organized the exhibition celebrating the centenary of the master in 1963. He was assigned in 1957 to the drawing room of the Louvre Museum, where he was in charge of the Edmond de Rothschild collection, and became chief curator of the drawing room in 1968.