19th and 20th century European and British Paintings

Paul Jance was born at Lyon in 1840.

From 1855 to 1861, Jance studied at the Beaux Arts Academy of Lyon. In Paris. Jance studied under the painter Gleyre.

Jance was above all a painter of flowers but he also painted portraits, genre scenes and still lifes.

From 1863 he exhibited at the Paris Salon, from 1879 at the Lyon Salon, from 1880 at the Dijon Salon and from 1882 at the Saint-Etienne Salon.

Examples of his exhibited works are as follows:

Pivoines Roses (pink Peonies) Saint Etienne Salon 1882

Fleurs Lyon Salon 1879

Chrysanthemes Dijon Salon 1880