Painting by Elisée Maclet titled Paris, view of Montmartre, the Moulin de la Galette in the snow

Oil on cardboard signed lower left by Elisée Maclet.

Certificate of authenticity.

Born April 12, 1881 in Lyons-en-Santerre, died August 23, 1962 in Paris.

Painter of landscapes and cityscapes. 

It was an abbot, a Sunday painter, who taught him the rudiments of oil painting. He settled in Montmartre in 1906, where writers Colette, Francis Carco and other personalities, including an American art dealer, took an interest in him. Max Jacob wrote about him. In 1933, he was institutionalized and never fully recovered from his mental illness. He exhibited in Paris in 1960, painting the typical landscapes of the Butte de Montmartre, Le Lapin à Gill, Moulin de La Galette and Maison de Mimi Pinson before Utrillo took them as his themes. After the First World War, his views of Paris won him great success. Around 1920, a wealthy amateur gave him the means for a long stay in the south of France, from where he brought back landscapes whose wonder at the Mediterranean nature they convey sometimes evoked the name of Matisse.