Edgar Maxence

Edgar Maxence studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Jules-Élie Delaunay and Gustave Moreau is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Edgar Maxence is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Musée d'Orsay, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Edgard Maxence • Born — 17 September 1871 • Birthplace — Nantes, France • Place of death — La Bernerie-en-Retz, France • Field — Painter • Training — École des Beaux-Arts • Movement — Symbolism • Works — L'âme de la forêt

He was taught by Elie Delaunay and Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is a contemporary of Henri Evenepoel, Jules Flandrin, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, 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 Lourdes. He also illustrated the book Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc (1945) by Jean-Joseph-Léonce Villepelet (Bishop of Nantes 1936–1966).

• Illustration — Donna con Orchidea, 1900 • Illustration — Ercole Uccide gli Uccelli di Stinfalo, 1893

• In the Musée d'Orsay, Paris • 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 Rennes • "Le Livre de Paix", Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux • L'âme de la forêt, 1898, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. • Le Livre de Paix, 1913, Art Gallery of New South Wales • "Annunciation, Purité", 1901, Wiesbaden Museum

Edgar Maxence is recorded as painter.