Maincent, Gustave

Paris 1850 - Paris 1887
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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.

A Mother and her Son with a View of the Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre, Paris