Edgar Maxence (also Edgard Maxence -- né Edgar Henri Marie Aristide Maxence -- 1871-1954) was a French painter with a Symbolist bent. His English Wikipedia entry is here, but it's brief, and the French version is little better. I posted "Edgar Maxence: Symbolism via Women" here, and decided to present more images of his work in the present post. Mexence mostly used attractive younger women as subjects and tended to place them in religious or otherwise spiritual settings. There were exceptions, of course, and a few are included below. Gallery Le calme du soir - 1903 Concert d'Anges - 1897 Jeanne Maxence - 1898 Le livre de la paix - 1929 Snow Queen This painting and the one immediately above seem to have featured the same model. Femme de profile lisant - 1914 Femme en prière Two mixed-media works. Siren Femme - 1897 Portrait du femme Portrait du femme - 1941 A fairly late work.

Edgar Maxence (1871-1954) French Symbolist painter. Check out more of his work at French Painters here .

EDGAR MAXENCE (NANTES 1871 - 1954 LA BERNERIE) Maxence is best remembered for his symbolist work, which drew both acclaim and criticism. Born in Nantes in 1871, he was a pupil of Jules-Elle Delaunay and Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. A painter of portraits, landscapes, and…

Edgar Maxence (French, 1871-1954) Young Maiden Playing the Mandora This art print is created with archival paper and fine archival pigment inks. 8x10, 11x14, 12x16".

Huile sur bois, achat au salon de la Société des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux, 1932.

There are plenty of images of the work of Edgar Maxence (1871-1954) on the Internet, but little information about him. His Wikipedia entry is here, and the French Wikipedia entry is about the same size. One possibly noteworthy fact is that he studied under Gustave Moreau, the noted Symbolist painter. Maxence painted a good many religious scenes and a number of his other subjects were treated in a similar manner. He was a good draftsman and used other media besides oil. As best I can tell, he painted in a higher key (less darks) by the 1920s and some of his landscape paintings are loosely done. Perhaps because of the war or maybe because he had turned 70, his production seems to have fallen off drastically after 1941. Although he occasionally depicted men, his subjects were almost always attractive young women. Gallery L'Âme de la Forêt - 1898 Les fleurs du lac - 1900 Note the two ladies glancing at us. Plus the rare inclusion of male subjects. La femme à l'orchidée - 1900 Might that be a cigarette in her right hand? Don't notice any smoke, though. Must be unlit. Edelweiss Not a religious painting, and not very Symbolic, so far as I can tell (though I'm ignorant of many symbols, religious or otherwise). But, as noted above, the treatment is similar. Jeune fille nourrissant des cygnes Portrait de jeune fille - c.1900 study of a young woman's head It looks like the same model was used for these three paintings. A caption I found on the Internet for the middle one stated that the media were watercolor, gouache and pastel. The lower work clearly incorporates some watercolor. Serenité - 1912 Le livre de la paix All three women look like they were derived from the same model. Reflection Le carrefoure de Prigny This is dated, but I can't quite read it. Might be 1944. But it's freely done and modernist-influenced. Portrait du femme - 1941 One of his later works. Its style shows a modernist influence in its simplicity, but only slightly.

Edgar Maxence [French Symbolist painter 1871-1954]

Edgard Maxence (1871-1954) è stato un pittore simbolista Francese. Cavaliere della Legion d'Onore nel 1900, Maxence espone dal 1894 al Salon des arti