Prudent-Louis Leray

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..Musée d'Orsay (en)RKDartists (en)

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 . He was 58 years old.Bénézit (en + nl)

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