Artist

Alexandre Séon

Portrait of Alexandre Séon

French, 1855–1917

Alexandre Séon was a French Symbolism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art. Alexandre Séon was born in Chazelles-sur-Lyon.

Alexandre Séon 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. 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.

Collections represented

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