Paul Madeline was a landscape painter of the French School who lived and worked in Paris at a time when both the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements were dominating the French scene. Madeline studied painting under E. Chaly, becoming a member of the Societe des Artistes Francais in 1897, the same year in which he won an honorable mention. Three years later, he won another honorable mention when his work was exhibited in the United States. By 1910, Madeline was a full member of the Salon Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

He was a painter who depicted the French landscape in sumptuous color and in loose brushstrokes. His paintings, reverberating with heat and filled with the light of the French Mediterranean, are comparable to the work of the renowned Post-Impressionist painter Armand Guillaumin. Though based in Paris, Madeline painted throughout the country, from the Mediterranean all the way up to Brittany. He died in Paris February 12th, 1920.