A Water Nymph (1898)

Léon Jean Basile Perrault: A Water Nymph

Mother With Sleeping Child (1896)

Léon Jean Basile Perrault: Mother With Sleeping Child

Out in the Cold (1890)

Léon Jean Basile Perrault: Out in the Cold

Little Brother (1889)

Léon Jean Basile Perrault: Little Brother

Léon Jean Basile Perrault (1879)

 Léon Jean Basile Perrault: Apple Picker

  

Léon Jean Basile Perrault: La Tarantella

The Guardian Sister (1878)

Léon Jean Bazile Perrault: The Guardian Sister

Widowed and Fatherless (1874)

Léon Jean Basile Perrault: Widowed and Fatherless

Maternity (1873)

Léon Jean Basile Perrault: Maternity

Though little known abroad, Perrault enjoyed a considerable following in France as a painter of genre subjects and portraits. A student of Picot and Bouguereau, he made his first appearance in the Paris Salon in 1861. In addition to easel paintings he also produced some decorative works, including a ceiling decoration for the Marriage Chamber of the city hall of his native Poitiers. In this interior scene that was first exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1873, Perrault shows a pretty young mother holding her young son. The child is nude and the mother wears a kimono, with her left shoulder and breast exposed. Perrault has excelled in achieving a remarkable richness of colors and textures: the embroidered saffron-colored silk of the mother's kimono constrasts with the rich purple velvet upholstery of the chair. The vibrantly colored Oriental rug and Japanese carved teak bed, on which rests a punchinello doll, reflect the vogue for Japanese products in 1870s France. [The Walters Art Museum]

Give for my Chapel (1867)

Léon Jean Basile Perrault: Give For My Chapel