François Antoine Léon Fleury

François Antoine Léon Fleury, a French landscape painter, was born in Paris in 1804. He was the son of Antoine Claude Fleury, under whom he at first studied, and then under Bertin and Hersent. Between 1827 and 1830 he made a sketching tour in France and the neighbouring countries. He occasionally painted figure subjects, such as The Baptism of Christ, at the church of St. Marguerite, and St. Genevieve, at St. Étienne-du-Mont, Paris. He died in 1858. Amongst his works are:

• A View of the Ponte Ratto, Rome. 1831.
• Wood in Normandy. (Bar-le-Duc Museum.)
• View on the Road to Genoa, near Nice. (Amiens Museum.)
• Pasturage in Normandy, near Trouville.
• Water and Mill at Coutivert.
• View on the Coast of Genoa. (Orléans Museum.)

References

This article incorporates text from the article "FLEURY, François Antoine Léon" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.