Léon Glaize

Although he lived in the second half of the 1800s and the first thirty years of the 1900s, he never abandoned the neoclassical and romantic concept and technique that he had learned from his father and his teacher Jean-Léon Gérôme.

At the age of 21 (1863) he enrolled at the École des beaux-arts in Paris and was assigned to the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme.

He exhibited there for several years, obtaining numerous awards and medals, but never shone, although he worked hard and received several commissions.

In 1890, the issuing institute of the Bank of France contacted him and commissioned him to study and then create the designs of the banknotes destined for the colonies.

[1] He was called to serve on the jury of the Salon of the "Society of French Artists" and in 1906 was promoted to Officer of the Legion d'honneur.