About Prudent Louis Leray
Lived 1820 – 1879 (aged 58). Prudent Louis Leray was a French painter and lithographer.
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.
A pupil of Paul Delaroche, Leray exhibited for the first time at the Salon of 1848. He excelled at genre paintings.
Leray died as a result of a stroke he had suffered four days earlier, while painting in his workshop on .
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French painter (1820–1879)
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Prudent Louis Leray was born on 29 August 1820 in Couëron.
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Prudent Louis Leray died on 25 May 1879 in Paris.
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Prudent Louis Leray was a painter and lithographer.
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