Léon Bazille Perrault
Biography
He was born to a modest family. A student of William Bouguereau and François-Edouard Picot, he exhibited at the Salon from 1863 onwards, producing many genre works which were immensely popular. He was famous for his le petit naufragé (The little shipwrecked boy, 1874) and his paintings of children.
Gallery
- La Baigneuse, 1875
- Sleeping Putto, 1882
- Vénus à la colombe, 1908
gollark: We each have a 1/3 chance of winning the h, exciting.
gollark: I kind of prefer g, but I guess if it's a giveway I wouldn't mind h too.
gollark: "we like to look at things as if it all for us, as if something is so grand about us, in truth we can only be grand if we so choose, and can properly attain it. but if we can, then what ever IT is was never for us. and thus only a blip in time, our memory and all of action erased as if it was never there, what is so special about us? nothing really." sounds pretty nihilist.
gollark: No, seems like rebranded nihilism.
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External links
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- Sleeping Putto, 1882 - Rehs Galleries' biography on Leon Perrault and an image of his painting Sleeping Putto.
- Léon Bazile Perrault at the Art Renewal Center
- - Catalogue Raisonné for the Complete Works of Leon Bazile Perrault
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