Dieppe – The Artists – Luce, Maximilien – Travel Information and Tips for France

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Dieppe. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

Movement(s): Neo Impressionism

Maximilien Luce (1858 – 1941) was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. Starting as an engraver, he then concentrated on painting, first as an Impressionist, then as a Pointillist, and finally returning to Impressionism.

His parents, of modest means, lived in the Montparnasse, a working-class district of Paris. Luce attended school at l’Ecole communale, beginning in 1864.

In 1872, the fourteen-year-old Luce became an apprentice with wood-engraver Henri-Théophile Hildebrand (1824–1897). During his three-year xylography apprenticeship, he also took night classes in drawing from instructors Truffet and Jules-Ernest Paris (1827–1895). During this period, Luce started painting in oils. He moved with his family to the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge. His art education continued as he attended drawing classes taught by Diogène Maillard (1840–1926) at the Gobelins tapestry factory.

Luce spent four years in the military, starting in 1879, serving in Brittany at Guingamp. The next year, he received a promotion to corporal, and he became friends with Alexandre Millerand, who, in 1920, assumed the office of President of France. In 1881 he requested the restoration of his lower rank of soldier, second class. Carolus-Duran used his influence to get a transfer for Luce to Paris barracks. His stint in the military came to a close in 1883.

Starting near the early part of the twentieth century, his identification with the Neo-impressionists began to disappear, as he became less active politically, and his artistic style shifted from Neo-impressionism, and he resumed painting in an Impressionist manner. Some of his paintings during this period depicted wounded World War I soldiers arriving from the battlefront to Paris.

Click here to read Luce’s full bio on Wikipedia.

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1922 - Maximilien Luce - The Port of Dieppe — 1922 – Maximilien Luce – The Port of Dieppe

TODAY: You can clearly see the arches which all older buildings on the port front still have.

1925 - Maximilien Luce - Dieppe, a Basin — 1925 – Maximilien Luce – Dieppe, a Basin

1930 - Maximilien Luce - Boats at Dieppe — 1930 – Maximilien Luce – Boats at Dieppe

TODAY: You can clearly see the church on top of the hill. This is the “Eglise Notre-Dame de Bonsecours de Dieppe” that still exists today and can be visited.

1930 - Maximilien Luce - Fishing Boats in the Port of Dieppe — 1930 – Maximilien Luce – Fishing Boats in the Port of Dieppe

TODAY: Dieppe still has an important fishing fleet.

1933 - Maximilien Luce - Dieppe, the exit from the port — 1933 – Maximilien Luce – Dieppe, the exit from the port

1935 - Maximilien Luce - Dieppe, animated landscape — 1935 – Maximilien Luce – Dieppe, animated landscape

1939 - Maximilien Luce - Dieppe, boats at the dock — 1939 – Maximilien Luce – Dieppe, boats at the dock

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Pourville-sur-Mer

Pourville is a neighbouring town which lies immediately to the South-West of Dieppe at the sea.

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Luce painted many paintings during his lifetime, a lot of them in Normandy. Here are the places he painted mostly in France (links “⇠” to his works will appear below when published):

Bourgogne-Franche-Comte (Burgundy)
- Auxerre
- Bessy-sur-Cure
- Cussy-les-Forges
- Vermenton
Brittany
- Camaret-sur-Mer
- Kermouster
- Lezardrieux
- Saint-Malo
- Saint-Servan
Normandy
- Dieppe (and surroundings) ⇠
  - Pourville-sur-Mer ⇠
- Gisors
- Honfleur ⇠
- Le Havre ⇠
- Le Treport
- Les Andelys
- Rouen
- Vernon
Pays de la Loire
- Angers
Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
- Saint-Tropez

Dieppe in Normandy was a popular place for artists to come and apply their art. Here is a list, non exhaustive, of the artists that painted in Dieppe.

A link (“⇠”) to the artist’s works will appear when published (a “*” indicates that the artist did not work directly in Dieppe, instead worked in nearby villages):

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