Léon Jean Basile Perrault ✽ (French, 1832–1908)

Thank you all for viewing and comments! ✽ All the best! Léon-Jean-Bazille Perrault (Poitiers 16 June 1832 – 1908 Royan) was a French academic painter. 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. éon_Bazille_Perrault