Artist
Juan León Pallière
Brazilian, 1823–1887
Juan León Pallière was a Brazilian Realism artist. 6 works are cataloged here, principally at National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina. Juan León Pallière was born in Rio de Janeiro.
Jean Léon Pallière Grandjean Ferreira (1 January 1823 – 12 February 1887), also known as Juan León Pallière, Juan Pedro León Pallière and João Leão Pallière, was a Brazilian-born French painter, draughtsman, engraver, lithographer and teacher. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Pallière trained in France, Brazil and Italy before settling in Buenos Aires in the mid-1850s. His best-known works show rural life, city views, landscapes and everyday scenes in Argentina and other parts of South America.
He is closely associated with images of the gaucho, rural Argentine life and the lithographic album Álbum Pallière. Escenas americanas, published in Buenos Aires in the 1860s.
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