Maurice Falliès (1883-1965) `` Notre-dame De Lorette ''

Watercolor signed lower right (located lower left and dated 1943)
Maurice Fallies (1883-1965) was a recognized painter at the turn of the century, he studied notably under the famous Francois Gall, and his work has a similar style and skill. Fallies was recognized for his skilled, moving depictions of Paris and of an industrializing century; he was at the heart of this period, France's new century. Fallies particularly specialized in post impressionist paintings of Paris street scenes, views along the riverbank, the Pont Neuf, Ile de la Cite, Notre Dame and Montmartre.