Alexandre Séon Explained

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.[1] 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.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ArtMagick.com . 2008-03-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080330233702/http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=alexandre-seon . 2008-03-30 . dead .
  2. Matthews, Patricia. Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender and French Symbolist Art. Page 2. University of Chicago Press, 1999.