Dieppe – The Artists – Maclet, Elisee – 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): Impressionism

Jules Emile Elisee Maclet (1881–1962) was a French Impressionist painter, particularly known for his views of Montmartre.

Maclet was born the son of a gardener and a laundress at Lihons in the Santerre region in Picardy. His family was poor and he began work very young as an assistant to his father. Picardy is renowned for its roses, and Maclet used to say that he was born among cabbages and roses. His artistic talent became evident very early. The parish priest, Father Delval, was also an amateur painter, and often on fine Sundays he took the boy out to sketch and paint in the countryside.

In spite of paternal opposition, a few years later Maclet gave up gardening for art and moved to Montmartre, where while painting he supported himself with a variety of casual work (varnishing iron bedsteads, decorating the floats for the gala nights at the Moulin Rouge, washed dishes or opening oysters in restaurants). For several months he served as a cook on board a ship sailing from Marseilles to Indochina. When he finally returned to Paris, he painted dolls in crinolines and exhibited them at the Salon des Humoristes. But in spite of all these occupations, he found time to paint.

When war broke out in 1914, Maclet served as a medical attendant in a temporary hospital run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. That allowed him to spend his periods of leave back in Montmartre, where he stayed at the Lapin Agile thanks to the hospitality of his friend Pere Frede. Maclet slept in the cabaret hall and paid for his food by washing dishes and polishing the copper pots.

When the war ended in 1918, Maclet returned to Montmartre. Francis Carco, feeling that the painter needed to widen his horizons, sent him to stay in Dieppe, and the sea coast soon featured in Maclet’s paintings.

He died in the Lariboisiere Hospital in Paris on 23 April 1962 and is buried in the cemetery at Lihons next to his parents.

Click here to read his very full and detailed bio on Wikipedia.

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1917 - Elisee Maclet - Sea close to Dieppe — 1917 – Elisee Maclet – Sea close to Dieppe

1917 - Elisee Maclet - The Port of Dieppe — 1917 – Elisee Maclet – The Port of Dieppe

1918 - Elisee Maclet - Port of Dieppe — 1918 – Elisee Maclet – Port of Dieppe

1919 - Elisee Maclet - The Gray Ship, Dieppe — 1919 – Elisee Maclet – The Gray Ship, Dieppe

1920 - Elisee Maclet - A sailboat at Quay in the Port of Dieppe — 1920 – Elisee Maclet – A sailboat at Quay in the Port of Dieppe

1923 - Elisee Maclet - Port of Dieppe — 1923 – Elisee Maclet – Port of Dieppe

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NOTE: Le Pollet is the fishermen district of Dieppe.

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Maclet‘s passion was painting in Paris, but he did paint a lot in other places in France (notably Dieppe). Here are the places he painted in (a link “⇠” to his works for these places will appear when published):

Brittany
- Saint-Michel-en-Greves
- Saint-Pol-de-Leon
Centre-Val de Loire
- Chartres
Corsica
- Bastia
Grand Est
- Colmar
- Orschwiller
Hauts-de-France
- Amiens
- Boulogne-sur-Mer
- Dunkerque
- Saint-Valery-sur-Somme
Normandy
- Dieppe ⇠
- Fecamp ⇠
- Honfleur
- Rouen
Occitanie
- Collioure
Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
- Avignon
- Biot
- Cassis
- Menton
- Villefranche-sur-Mer

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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