Alexandre Seon
French Symbolist Painter, 1855-1917
was a French Symbolist artist, illustrator and decorator. Seon studied at the Beaux-Arts of Lyon and Paris, becoming a student of Puvis de Chavannes in 1891, with whom he later collaborated. He was closely associated with Josephin Peladan and his Salon de la Rose-Croix, and designed the frontispiece for Peladan's 1891 novel l'Androgyne
ID: 11700 Orpheus' Lamentation Salon of 1896
2' 4 3/4'' x 3' 9 3/4''(73 x 116 cm)Gift of Fleury Grosmollard,1919
