(Paris, 1858 - Paris, 1941)
La Promenade au jardin du Luxembourg à Paris, Circa 1930
Oil on paper laid on pannel of isorel
Signed Luce lower right
Situated Luxembourg lower right
23.5 x 30.3 cm
Literature:
Recorded in the archives of Mrs. Denise Bazetoux (†)
for volume IV of the unpublished Catalogue Raisonné de l’œuvre peint de Maximilien Luce
Young pushchair pushers in the allée Férou in the Jardin du Luxembourg, 1907
Photograph by the brothers Jules, Louis and Henri Séeberger
Musée Carnavalet, History of Paris, Paris
The Luxembourg Gardens, in the capital's 6th arrondissement, were a favourite subject for painters at the turn of the 20th century, as they embodied a time and place of leisure far removed from the relentless, exhilarating pace of modern Parisian life.
Vincent VAN GOGH
Allée au Jardin du Luxembourg, 1886
Oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA
Henri ROUSSEAU (known as LE DOUANIER ROUSSEAU)
Le Jardin du Luxembourg, Monument à Chopin, 1909
Oil on canvas
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia