Maurice Eliot (1862 - 1945) Elegant Woman With Umbrella, Dated 1885.

Maurice Eliot, a delicate painter faithful to Impressionist clarity.

By depicting an elegant woman in nature, protecting herself from the sun's rays with an umbrella, Maurice Eliot chose one of the Impressionists' favorite subjects. One cannot help but think of Claude Monet's iconic work.

Maurice Eliot, a talented pastel artist.

Félix Fénéon, visiting the "Exposition des 33" (French pastel artist society) in January 1889, said of Maurice Eliot, "this pastel artist chooses among his pencils the light, the lively, the tender, and his joy in handling them is manifest."
Our work testifies to the delicacy and refinement of his nuanced coloring.

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Charles Louis Maurice Eliot is a painter, pastel artist, printmaker, illustrator, and drawing teacher.

Maurice Eliot was born in Paris to Claude Gabriel Eliot, a timber merchant, and Marie Antoinette Bouret, who had no profession. Following the couple's rapid separation, Maurice's childhood was divided between Paris and Épinay-sous-Sénart, where his maternal grandfather, Jean-Louis Bouret, who was mayor from 1860 to 1865, owned several properties.
He lived and worked in Paris but remained loyal to Épinay-sous-Sénart, "which played a leading role in his Neo-Impressionist painting."

Thanks to a travel grant, he visited southern Europe, participated in the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900, receiving a silver medal at each. He also performed at the Salon d'Automne (Louis Vauxcelles lists him among the artists noted at the 1905 Salon) and became a member of the Society of French Artists.

A renowned pastel artist, he exhibited twice at the Galerie Georges Petit, in 1888 and 1889, during the "exhibitions of the 33" French pastel artists grouped together in a society founded and chaired by Roger Ballu. The society also included Charles Angrand, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Eugène Dauphin, Émile Friant, Thomas Alexander Harrison, Fernand Khnopff, Albert Lebourg, Ary Renan, and Guillaume Van Strydonck.

In 1889, Maurice Eliot was elected to the board of the Société des pastellistes français, alongside Jean-Louis Forain and Jules Chéret, among others, to participate in its annual exhibitions.

In 1894, the French government acquired a painting by Maurice Eliot for the first time, and in 1897, Ambroise Vollard commissioned a color lithograph from him for the Vollard Gallery's Album of Original Prints. He joined the Society of Painters-Lithographers in 1899.

Maurice Eliot moved with his mother and sister to 37 rue de Clichy in 1900, where he lived until 1937, spending summers at the family home in Épinay-sous-Sénart.

In 1901, after teaching drawing at various schools in Paris since the early 1890s, Maurice Eliot was appointed "drawing master" at the École Polytechnique, where he taught until 1932.

In January 1908, he was named a Knight of the Legion of Honor, with Charles Léandre as his sponsor. He exhibited his work at Devambez in May 1909, before being represented by the Parisian gallery Sagot-Le Garrec.

The 1930s were a period of trials, with the successive deaths of his mother Marie Antoinette in 1932, his old friend Charles Léandre in 1934, and then his sister Jeanne, who suffered from mental illness.
After her death in 1937, he settled permanently at 15 rue de la Villette in Épinay-sous-Sénart, where he died in August 1945.

Solo Exhibitions

• Galerie Devambez, Paris, May 1909.
• Maurice Eliot Retrospective, Musée Robert Dubois-Corneau, Brunoy, Spring 1988.
• Héro et Léandre: Charles Léandre, Maurice Eliot - Memories of Youth in the Studios of Montmartre; Robert Dubois-Corneau Museum, Brunoy, September 2001 - January 2002.
• 150 pastels by French and foreign pastel masters, La Ferme Ornée Art and Exhibition Center, Yerres, from April 18 to June 7, 2009.
• Tribute to Maurice Eliot, Maurice Eliot Cultural Center, Épinay-sous-Sénart, November 2012.

Group Exhibitions

• Salon of French Artists, Paris, from 1881.
• Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts, 1899.
• Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1905.
• Versailles Exhibition, Society of Friends of the Arts of Seine-et-Oise, Versailles Museum, June 1889.
• Artists who are members of the "Société Moderne," Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris, February 1909.
• Salon of the Society of Lithographic Painters, 1909[41].
• Painting the Suburbs from Corot to Vlaminck, 1850-1950, Grognard Workshop, Rueil-Malmaison, December 2016 - January 2017; French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, April 2017.

Museums

France

• Abbeville, Boucher-de-Perthes Museum: Interior Scene.

• Auxerre, Leblanc-Duvernoy Museum: The Song of Water.

• Béziers, Museum of Fine Arts: Hours of Twilight.

• Brunoy, Robert Dubois-Corneau Museum:
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• Lille, Palace of Fine Arts: Burial of a Young Girl, 1888,

• Montgeron, Joseph Jacquiot Museum,

• Nîmes, Museum of Fine Arts: