Léon-Jean-Basile Perrault

1832 - 1908 French

Léon-Jean-Basile Perrault

Famous for popular academic paintings of children

Léon-Jean-Bazille Perrault was a French academic painter. 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.

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