Léon Cladel [SEP] place of death
Léon Cladel
Léon Cladel (Montauban March 22, 1834 – July 21, 1892 Sèvres) was a French novelist.
The son of an artisan, he studied law at Toulouse and became a solicitor's clerk in Paris. Cladel made a limited reputation by his first book, "Les Martyrs ridicules" (1862), a novel for which Charles Baudelaire, whose literary disciple Cladel was, wrote a preface. He then returned to his native district of Quercy in southwestern France, where he produced a series of stories
-down settings far removed from Romanticism. This realism, of which he was one of the pioneers, attracted the interest from the 1850s of predominantly French critics and intellectuals, particularly Baudelaire and also Léon Cladel, who was inspired by Stevens' paintings to write "Léon Cladel et sa kyrielle de chiens" (1885).
Museum holdings.
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
- Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
- Belfius Art Collection
- Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
- Musée des