Project Description

Oil on panel

Dimensions : 41 cm x 27 cm

Signed lower left : Madeleine Massonneau

Mount Acute Fontainebleau

Madeleine Maudin Massonneau (Active in the middle of the 20th century)

Ici, of Mont Aigu the romantic chain
Covers her nakedness with Baltic pines

“The forest of Fontainebleau, poem in four songs followed by various poems ».
Alexis Durand, Chant 1er. 1836.

Some of these works in France :

– The closed playground of the rue Beauregard school (IIe Paris) is thus signed and dated by several artists on the theme of Fables de la Fontaine : Margaret Baer Austin (1930), Madeleine Massonneau (1930), member of the “La Fresque” association, a Margaret Ann Dorson. No document remains about this decoration., if not a letter from Madeleine Massonneau requesting a job in 1936 and recalling the frescoes executed there “with some of my comrades”.

– The fresco of the old Jean-Jaurès school (1933- 1934) of Saint Nazaire.

– Monumental painting of Saint Bernadette (300 H x 240 L) 1929– Notre-Dame du Rosaire parish church – Pornichet – Loire-Atlantique. Paintings cover the back wall of the chapel, semi-circular, around an altar niche, and the side walls with their niches, on three registers separated by a brick apparatus.

– Monumental painting (semi-circular fresco) – Procession at Notre-Dame-des-Dunes. Parish Church of Notre-Dame du Rosaire – Pornichet – Loire-Atlantique.

– Painting “The surroundings of Clamecy” (H 37 x L 44,5) 1958. Property of the Marie de La Capelle-Bleys – Aveyron. The painting shows a landscape around Clamecy, hilly and wooded with a village on a river or canal. Poplars bordering the waterway. The frame comprises a decoration in geometrical shape.

Sources : www.culture.gouv.fr

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