Maincent, Gustave
Paris
1850
- Paris
1887
Biography & List of works
A Mother and her Son with a View of the Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre, Paris
Medium: Oil On Canvas
Size: 25 x 33 cm (9.8 x 13 in)
Signed: Signed lower left of center: Gustave Maincent
Painted circa 1875 – 80
The view looking towards this famous Parisian monument was painted by Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, van Gogh and Picasso among others. The scene here is not still as rural as one finds in earlier views as this side of Montmartre in 1880 was beginning to be developed.