He was taught by Elie Delaunay and Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1894 until 1939 and was active on the salon's committees and juries. Maxence combined a highly trained technique with a taste for medieval and mythical subjects and for hermetic imagery; he exhibited at the Salon de la Rose+Croix from 1895 to 1897.
In 1920 he painted the image of Our Lady on the vaulted ceiling of the choir in the Basilica of the Rosary in Lourdes. He also illustrated the book Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc (1945) by Jean-Joseph-Léonce Villepelet (Bishop of Nantes 1936-1966).
Here are some of his paintings featuring red hair.
Young Girl Looking Left
Announciation, 1901
Bacchante
Calypso
Femme à l'orchidée
Faunesse entourée de fleurs
Femme de la Renaissance à la lecture
Femme libellule
Femme à la prière
Jeune fille nourissant les cygnes
La sirène
Le recuillement
Mademoiselle Maxance, fille du peintre,
épouse de Roland Balay
Portrait de jeune fille
Portrait de jeune fille
Trois filles
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