Jean Eugène Julien Massé (1856-1950) On The Arcachon Basin

Jean Eugène Julien Massé (1856-1950) On the Bassin d'Arcachon (circa1935) oil on canvas 46x61cm Jean Eugène Julien Massé (1856-1950) Post-Impressionist Landscape Painter born in Meaux (Seine et Marne) in 1856, died and 1950. In 1879, after having spent three years in a battalion of hunters on foot in Algeria, Jean Massé studied Fine Arts in Amiens and then in Paris in Boulanger's studio. Around 1882 Jean Massé moved to Luzancy and became a pupil of the painter Alexandre Bouché. Inspired by the Briarde countryside, the banks of the Marne, or Brittany, the subtle nuanced touch of colored gray makes the foliage and the light of his compositions shudder in the manner of the masters of 19th century landscape. Museums: Amiens: Museum of Fine Arts Arras: Museum of Fine Arts Meaux: Museum Bossuet Reins: Museum of Fine Arts Town hall of La Ferté sous Jouarre Bibliography: Noël Coret: Around Impressionism, The painters of the Valley of la Marne, Edition La renaissance du Livre, 2000. Gérald Schurr: The little masters of painting (1820-1920), value of tomorrow, Editions de l'amateur, Paris 1985.