Leon Bazile Perrault (1832-1908) was a French Academic painter from Poitiers. Perrault studied first under Francois-Eduoard Picot and later William Adolphe Bouguereau. The latter's influence is seen strongly in his style and content.Perrault rose to high fame after the 70s, when the French people craved beauty and delicacy to replace their humiliations from revolutions and lost wars. In Perrault's idyll of languishing Greek women and children at play, there are no German armies slapping France into submission.
The Bird Charmer (1873) now in a private collection.
A Good Story, also in a private collection. Compare. What can I say? I'm a Bouguereau fanboy. Art snobs may dismiss us as simple-minded, but history is on our side.
When I first saw this picture, I immediately thought of this one by Perrault's master. Notice the foot and reflection. Nature's Mirror, in a private collection.
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