About Alexandre Séon
Lived 1855 – 1917 (aged 61–62). Alexandre Séon was a French painter.
Alexandre Séon (1855, Chazelles-sur-Lyon, Loire – 1917, Paris) was a French Symbolist artist, illustrator and decorator. Séon studied at the Beaux-Arts of Lyon and Paris, becoming a student of Puvis de Chavannes in 1891, with whom he later collaborated. He was closely associated with Joséphin Péladan and his Salon de la Rose-Croix, and designed the frontispiece for Péladan's 1891 novel l'Androgyne.
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Who was Alexandre Séon?
French painter (1855-1917)
When was Alexandre Séon born?
Alexandre Séon was born in 1855 in Chazelles-sur-Lyon.
When did Alexandre Séon die?
Alexandre Séon died in 1917 in Paris.
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Alexandre Séon was a painter.
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Alexandre Séon was French.
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