Maurice Orange

Maurice Orange (9 March 1867, Granville - 28 February 1916, Paris) was a French painter and artist.

Life

His youth was spent with his family and was influenced by the Franco-Prussian War. He showed an early talent for drawing and his first tutors gained him a scholarship to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1885, where he studied under Jean-Léon Gerome and François Flameng and became friends with Édouard Detaille. He was mainly inspired by historical subjects, especially the Napoleonic era, though he also produced portraits, landscapes, townscapes and sketches, often adding drawings to his letters.

From 1887 to 1914 he took part in the Salon des Artistes Français. He won medals and travel bursaries and Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Africa and above all Egypt became major influences on him. He worked in oils, watercolour, gouache, pastel and charcoal. He died of typhoid fever in 1916.

Bibliography

• Catalogue for the exhibitions at Granville by the Musée du Vieux Granville and the Musée d’art moderne Richard Anacréon (July–October 1999)