Edgard Maxence (; 17 September 1871 – 31 July 1954) was a French Symbolist painter.

Life

He was taught by Elie Delaunay and

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at the

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in Paris. He is a contemporary of Henri Evenepoel, Jules Flandrin,

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, Léon Printemps, Georges Rouault and other notable alumni from this famous school. He exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1894 until 1939, and was active on the salon's committees and juries. Maxence combined a highly trained technique with a taste for medieval and mythical subjects and for hermetic imagery; he exhibited at the ''Salon de la Rose+Croix'' from 1895 to 1897. In 1920 he painted the image of Our Lady on the vaulted ceiling of the choir in the Basilica of the Rosary in

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. He also illustrated the book ''Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc'' (1945) by Jean-Joseph-Léonce Villepelet ( Bishop of Nantes 1936–1966).

Gallery

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Works in museums or public galleries

*In the

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: ''Femme à l'Orchidée'', 1900 : ''Sérénité'', ca. 1912 : ''Tête de jeune fille'', 1932 : ''Fleurs des champs'', ca. 1950 * ''Portrait de jeune fille'', ca. 1900, Musée des Beaux-Arts de

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* "Le Livre de Paix", Musée des Beaux-Arts de

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*
L'âme de la forêt
', 1898, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. *
Le Livre de Paix
', 1913,

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* "Annunciation, Purité", 1901, Wiesbaden Museum

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1871 births 1954 deaths Artists from Nantes École des Beaux-Arts alumni 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French portrait painters French Symbolist painters Officers of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub