A view of Dieppe, a popular French resort that was frequented by many prominent artists and art patrons of the 19th century.

Undated.  Possibly 1890’s or 1900’s.

Maurice Levis was born in Paris in 1860. He was a student of the landscape artist Henri-Joseph Harpignies, the academic master Charles-Victor-Eugene Lefebvre and Pierre Billet. He exhibited regularly in the Salon after his debut in 1886, and also figured prominently at the exhibition of the Societaire des Artistes Francais in 1888. He shared the painterly vision of the Impressionists, and went on to have a distinguished career as a landscape painter. Levis died in Paris in 1940.