Maximilien Jules Constant Luce, Neo-Impressionist painter and print maker, was born in Paris in 1858. Attended school at l’Ecole Communate in 1864. In 1872 he became apprentice wood-engraver to Henri Theophile Hildebrand also taking night classes in drawing from Truffet and Jules- Ernst. Luce began working at the studio of Eugene Froment in 1876 producing woodcuts for various magazines including L’Illustration and The Graphic. He shifted his focus to full time painting around 1883. Moved to Montmartre in 1887 and joined the Society des Artistes Independants, (later elected vice President in 1909) Met such artists as Signac, Pissarro, Seurat and Henri-Edmund Cross among others. Travelled to London with Pissarro in 1892 and later that year, visited Saint-Tropez with Signac. First solo exhibition in 1888 and also exhibited with the Les XX in Brussels 1889-1892. Published a number of lithographs in the Pointillist / Neo-Impressionist manner in the 1890’s. Many museums throughout the World hold examples of his work.