Alexandre Séon

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]

The Story. 1898. Musée de Brest

References

1. "ArtMagick.com". Archived from the original on 2008-03-30. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
2. Matthews, Patricia. Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender and French Symbolist Art. Page 2. University of Chicago Press, 1999.