Prudent-Louis Leray, (29 August 1820 – 25 May 1879) was a French painter and lithographer.

Life

Born in Couëron, Leray was the son of a famous doctor from Nantes who distinguished himself during the 1832 cholera pandemic. After studying as a scholarship student at the college in Nantes, Leray entered the city school of fine arts.[1][2][3]

A pupil of Paul Delaroche,[4] Leray exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1848. Since then, his works have appeared with great success at all the annual Salons.[1][2]

Gifted with a fine and delicate talent, Leray excelled at genre paintings, where coquetry and grace give a poetic character. Very meticulous in the details of his compositions, his canvases constitute a veritable museum of the costume of the Louis XV period, a period that he particularly liked.[1][5]

Leray died as a result of a stroke he had suffered four days earlier, while painting in his workshop on Rue Véron.[1] He was 58 of age.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Lettres, sciences, arts". La Presse (in French). Vol. La Presse (France), no. 146. 26 May 1879. p. 3..
  2. 1 2 Musée d'Orsay (en)
  3. ↑ RKDartists (en)
  4. ↑ "Échos de partout". Le Petit Parisien: Journal Quotidien du Soir (in French). No. 955. 29 May 1879. p. 3..
  5. ↑ Union List of Artist Names (en)
  6. ↑ Bénézit (en + nl)

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