Jean Massé (1856-1950) Corot Alley In Luzancy

Jean Massé (1856-1950) Allée Corot à Luzancy Oil on canvas Signed lower right 35x27cm Jean Eugène Julien Massé (1856-1950) Post-impressionist landscape painter born in Meaux (Seine et Marne) in 1856, died in 1950. In 1879, after spending three years in a battalion of foot hunters in Algeria, Jean Massé attended the Beaux-Arts in Amiens and then in Paris in Boulanger's studio. Around 1882, Jean Massé settled in Luzancy and became a student of the painter Alexandre Bouché. Inspired by the Briarde countryside, the banks of the Marne, or Brittany, the subtle nuanced touch of colored grays makes the foliage and light of his compositions quiver in the manner of the masters of 19th century landscape. Museums: Amiens: Museum of Fine Arts Arras: Museum of Fine Arts Meaux: Bossuet Museum Reins: Museum of Fine Arts Town Hall of La Ferté sous Jouarre Bibliography: Noël Coret: Around Impressionism, The Painters of the Marne Valley, Edition La renaissance du Livre, 2000. Gérald Schurr: The Little Masters of Painting (1820-1920), Value of Tomorrow, Editions de l'amateur, Paris 1985.