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Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy (1860 in Paris – 1942) was a French Orientalist painter.
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- Le 14 octobre 2012 paul leroy c est mon choix pour les communales 2 0
- Life and career
- Select list of paintings
- References
Life and career
French by birth, Leroy spent his childhood in Odessa, where his father had a business. He lived in Odessa until age 17 years, which gave him interest in the East. In Paris, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts where he met Georges Landelle, an orientalist painter. In 1885 he visited Turkey and Egypt, with Landelle and his father. In 1886 journeyed to Tunisia and Algeria, returning to the country's southern region several times during the 1880s and 1890s. Leroy's Portrait de sa mere is a parody of Whistler's Portrait of the Painter's Mother and won the Prix du Salon in 1884.
During his career, LeRoy painted both Orientalist scenes and religious paintings. He worked in oil, watercolours and also made lithographs.