Eugène Delécluse was a painter, illustrator and graphic artist who had studied in Paris. During World War I, when he was sent to Saloniki with the Army of the Orient, he created several drawings for the newspaper L’Illustration. Trips later took him to several European countries. Delécluse painted landscapes, marine views and people, mostly in oil. From 1903-14 he regularly exhibited at the Salon of French Artists, and then in the National Society of Fine Arts. His father was the painter Auguste Joseph Delécluse.