Jean Eugène Julien Massé (1856–1950) Verneuil (marne)

Jean Massé (1856–1950)
Verneuil (Marne)
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
38x46cm
52x61cm framed

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 chasseurs in Algeria, Jean Massé studied at 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, and Brittany, his subtle brushwork, nuanced with shades of gray, brings the foliage and light in his compositions to life in the style of the 19th-century masters of landscape painting.

Public Collections
Amiens: Museum of Fine Arts
Arras: Museum of Fine Arts
Meaux: Bossuet Museum
Reins: Museum of Fine Arts
La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Town Hall