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Leon Jean Basile Perrault

Leon Jean Basile Perrault (1832 - 1908) was active/lived in France.  Leon Perrault is known for Genre, figure and portrait painting.

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Léon Bazile Perrault
1832-1908

Painter of genre, history, religion and portraits, Leon Perrault stands in peril of not being remembered as distinctively as his successes might merit. For our part, we may narrow this great artist's claims at once by rejecting his religious painting, and we may be inclined to go on and deny him the title of historical painter, so that, although we shall have paintings of religious subjects and of historical subjects to consider, we shall in truth be considering them as work of a painter of genre and portrait. Assuredly, we are not alone in judging Léon Perrault not to be, in the legitimate sense, a religious painter; but in the matter of history, opinions may be divided. In symbolic genre, on the other hand, he is unmatched, and in portrait so masterly, that his place in those arts is fixed forever.

Léon Jean Bazile Perrault was born in Poitiers, France on June 20, 1832 to a very poor family. As a young boy, he dreamed of ways   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9514 characters.]  Artist bio

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