Victor Simon Perard

Victor Semon Pérard (1870-July 9, 1957) was an illustrator and author.

Perard attended the Art Students League and National Academy of Design in New York as well as the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He studied anatomy at New York University Medical College and taught life drawing classes at Cooper Union for 20 years and at the Traphagen School of Fashion in New York for 10 years.

Alphaeus Philemon Cole painted a portrait of him. The New York Times ran his obituary July 10, 1957.

Works Author and illustrator Anatomy and Drawing Blackboard Fun Drawing Animals Drawing Horses

Illustrator Some strange corners of our country: the wonderland of the Southwest by Charles F. Lummis (1892), one of the illustrators' The Czar's Gift (1906) The Son of Columbus by Molly Elliot Seawell (1912) The Misadventures of Joseph by J. J. Bell (1914) Everybody's birthright: a vision of Jeanne d'Arc by Clara E. Laughlin The Castle of Cheer (1916) In African Forest and Jungle by Paul B. Du Chaillu King Mombo by Paul B. Du Chaillu' Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War, by Kirk Munroe With Crockett and Bowie: or, Fighting for the Lone-Star Flag by Kirk Munroe, Scribner (1925) Five Years with Congo Cannibals. (1890)'