Victor Pérard
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Victor Semon Pérard (1870-July 9, 1957) was an illustrator and author.[1]
Perard attended the Art Students League and National Academy of Design in New York as well as the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He studied anatomy at New York University Medical College and taught life drawing classes at Cooper Union for 20 years and at the Traphagen School of Fashion in New York for 10 years.[2]
Perard authored the well-known book Anatomy in Drawing[2] as well as Drawing Horses, Faces and Expressions, Sketching Landscape, Blackboard Fun, Drawing Animals, Drawing Horses, and How to Draw. His etchings, aquatints and lithographs are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, and his oil paintings of General John J. Pershing and Marshal Foch are at the Smithsonian War Museum in Washington D.C.[2] His artworks are also held by the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Museum of the City of New York, and the American Watercolor Society. He was survived by his wife, Ernestine.[2]
He was co-illustrator with Warren B. Davis of Herbert Ward's (1863–1919) Five Years with Congo Cannibals.[vp 1]
Alphaeus Philemon Cole painted a portrait of him.[vp 2] The New York Times ran his obituary July 10, 1957.[2]
Works
[edit]Author and illustrator
[edit]Illustrator
[edit]- Some strange corners of our country: the wonderland of the Southwest by Charles F. Lummis (1892), one of the illustrators'[vp 4]
- The Czar's Gift (1906)
- The Son of Columbus by Molly Elliot Seawell (1912)[3]
- The Misadventures of Joseph by J. J. Bell (1914)
- Everybody's birthright: a vision of Jeanne d'Arc by Clara E. Laughlin[3]
- The Man of the Desert (c. 1914) by Grace Livingston Hill'[vp 5]
- The Castle of Cheer (1916)[3]
- Dominie Dean : a novel by Ellis Parker Butler Fleming H. Revell Company (1917)
- A Maid of Old Virginia (1915), a romance of Bacon's rebellion
- The forsaken inn; a novel by Anna Katharine Green'[vp 6]
- In African Forest and Jungle by Paul B. Du Chaillu
- King Mombo by Paul B. Du Chaillu'[vp 7]
- Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War, by Kirk Munroe
- With Crockett and Bowie: or, Fighting for the Lone-Star Flag by Kirk Munroe, Scribner (1925)
- Five Years with Congo Cannibals. (1890)'[vp 1]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Artist Biography for Victor Perard". www.askart.com. Archived from the original on 2017-04-01. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Victor Perard, 87, Artist and Author". New York Times (Obituary). July 10, 1957. p. 27.
- 1 2 3 4 "Victor Simon Pérard at The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
Primary sources
[edit]- 1 2 Five years with the Congo cannibals (Primary source). Chatto & Windus. December 4, 1890 – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ ""Portrait of Mr. Victor S. Perard" Alphaeus P. Cole". December 4, 1948 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Pérard, Victor Semon (December 4, 1954). Sketching landscape. Pitman drawing series. Pitman Pub. Corp. – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ Lummis, Charles Fletcher; Heinemann, E.; Bookhout, Edward; Annin, Phineas F.; Linton, W. J.; Pérard, Victor Semon; Holmes, William Henry; Moran, Thomas (December 4, 1892). Some strange corners of our country: the wonderland of the Southwest. The Century Co. – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ Hill, Grace Livingston (December 4, 1914). "The Man of the Desert". Illustrated by Victor Semon Perard. Fleming H. Revell Company. Retrieved 8 December 2025 – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ Green, Anna Katharine (December 4, 1890). The Forsaken Inn. Choice series; no. 22. Robert Bonner's Sons – via HathiTrust.
- ↑ Du Chaillu, Paul B. (1902). "King Mombo". Project Gutenberg. Illustrated by Victor Semon Pérard. Charles Scribner’s Sons. Retrieved 8 December 2025 – via University of Pennsylvania.
External links
[edit]- Portrait of Victor Perard by Alphaeus P. Cole
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