Léon-Jean-Bazille Perrault was born in Poitiers in France in 1832. He studied under two master painters in the nineteenth-century academic style: his teacher, François-Edouard Picot, and his friend William Bouguereau. He exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1861.
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Perrault is known today mostly for his sentimental depictions of cherubs and naked children with innocence, vulnerability and beauty.
