Leo Herrmann (2 July 1853 – 1927) was a French anti-clerical painter.
Herrmann was educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, and learned under the tutelage Ernest Meissonier. He entered the Parisian art scene in 1875 at the Paris Salon. Herrmann occasionally painted dandies or soldiers, but became a successful artist by creating works that depict cardinals wearing red cassocks in comical scenarios.
Some of his paintings have clerics feeding swans; others have cardinals themselves painting. Another has a cardinal drinking wine through a long straw.
Works.
His first painting, shown in 1875, is "A Bout d'Argument". Others include "La Bonne Histoire" (1876), "Le Scandale du Jour" (1877), "Au Rendez-Vous" (1887), "Le Goûter" (1889), "Au Cabare" (1896), "The Cordon Bleu", "Suzette's Slipper", and "L'incroyable".
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