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Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy

Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy (1860 - 1942) was active/lived in France, Algeria.  Paul Leroy is known for Orientalist harem figure, genre, buildings and figures in landscape painting, lithography.

Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy (1860 in Paris – 1942) was a French painter noted for Orientalist* works. He was a founding member of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français (Society for French Orientalist Painters) and designed the Society's first logo.

French by birth, Leroy spent his childhood in Odessa, Russia where his father had a business. He lived in Odessa until age 17 years, which gave him interest in the East. In Paris, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts*. He first exhibited in 1882 and was awarded a medal. 

At Beaux Artes, he met Georges Landelle (1860-1898), an Orientalist painter and the pair became life-long friends. In 1885 he visited Turkey and Egypt, with Landelle and Landelle's father. In 1886 journeyed to Tunisia and Algeria, returning to the country's southern region several times during the 1880s and 1890s. During this period, Leroy studied the Arabic language, which enabled him to use the Arabic script effectively in a n   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2375 characters.]  Artist bio

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