Prudent-Louis Leray, (29 August 1820 – 25 May 1879) was a French painter and
lithographer
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Life
Born in
Couëron
Couëron (; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. It is part of the historic French Brittany.
Couëron is one of the 24 communes of the Nantes Métropole.
Geography
Physical geography
Couëron is located 10 m ...
, 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.
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A pupil of
Paul Delaroche
Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English ...
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[.] 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.
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.
Leray died as a result of a stroke he had suffered four days earlier, while painting in his workshop on .
He was 58 of age.
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External links
Commons category:Prudent-Louis Leray
Prudent-Louis Leray
on artnet.
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19th-century French painters
19th-century French lithographers
19th-century French male artists
1820 births
1879 deaths
People from Loire-Atlantique