sentences:  Pelez was born in Paris.His father, Fernand Pelez de Cordova (1820–1899), was a Parisian painter as well, and was one of his teachers.Pelez was a commercial failure in the 1880s, and after the failure of his "L'Humanité" at the Salon of 1896, Pelez became something of a recluse, refusing to exhibit or sell his work.