Maurice Milliere
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Maurice Milliere was a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 illustrator who studied at l'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs is a public university of art and design and is one of the most prestigious French grande école...

 and l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was a contemporary of Louis Icart. Milliere served as an early inspiration to Vargas. He became one of the illustrators for La Vie Parisienne
La Vie Parisienne
La Vie Parisienne was a magazine in France founded in 1863 and popular at the turn-of-the-twentieth century. It was originally intended as a guide to upper class and artistic life in Paris , but it soon evolved into a mildly risqué erotic publication...

and Fantasio. He helped to estabish the genre of boudoir art. Millière died in 1946 at the age of 74.

External links

  • http://www.chasenantiques.com/index.php?pid=8&ipid=244
  • http://www.caltongallery.co.uk/Artist.aspx?id=Artist.MILLIERE
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