Michel-Auguste Colle

Auguste-Michel Colle, sometimes known as Michel-Auguste Colle, a French painter of the Nancy school, active from c. 1900 to c. 1940. His pictures are in a number of private and public collections in France and elsewhere, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris; the Paris Hotel de Ville; the Musée del Guerre, Paris; the Musée Charlier in Brussels; the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; the Musée d'Arts de Nantes; the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy; the Musée de l'École de Nancy; the Musée de l'Histoire du Fer, also in Nancy; the Pierre Noël Museum in Saint Dié: and the Musée des Marais Salants, in Batz-Sur-Mer.