Alexandre Séon, le Récit, circa 1898, Musée de Brest

Alexandre Séon (1855,

Chazelles-sur-Lyon Chazelles-sur-Lyon (, literally ''Chazelles on Lyon'') is a commune in the Loire department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Loire department The following is a list of the 323 communes of the Loire department of Fr ...

Loire The Loire (, also ; ; oc, Léger, ; la, Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône ...

– 1917, Paris) was a French

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

artist, illustrator and decorator. Séon studied at the Beaux-Arts of Lyon and Paris, becoming a student of

Puvis de Chavannes Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beau ...

in 1891, with whom he later collaborated. He was closely associated with

Joséphin Péladan Joséphin Péladan (28 March 1858 in Lyon – 27 June 1918 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French novelist and Martinist. His father was a journalist who had written on prophecies, and professed a philosophic-occult Catholicism. He established the ...

and his Salon de la Rose-Croix, and designed the frontispiece for Péladan's 1891 novel ''l'Androgyne''.Matthews, Patricia. ''Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender and French Symbolist Art.'' Page 2. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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