Joanni Perronet

Joanni Maurice Perronet (19 October 1877 – 1 April 1950) was a French painter and fencer.

He was a fencing master, the only professional allowed to compete in the Olympic Games at the time.

Two such masters, Perronet and Leonidas Pyrgos of Greece, competed in a special foil fencing event at the first modern Olympics.

[1] He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning a silver medal and 3 goats.

[3] He also designed many posters for French railway companies[4] and painted several portraits of Sarah Bernhardt.

one of his seascapes