Artist

Clara Filleul

Portrait of Clara Filleul
Portrait of Clara Filleul

French, 1822–1878

Clara Filleul was a French artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Clara Filleul was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou.

Clara Pauline Filleul, also Clara Filleul de Pétigny, (née Claire Pauline Filleul) (1822–1878) was a French painter and children's writer. Together with the painter Raymond Monvoisin she travelled to South America in the late 1840s, becoming a successful portrait painter in Santiago. On returning to France, she exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1860. As an author, from 1846 she published a number of illustrated children's stories.

Works by Clara Filleul

Collections represented

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.