Pierre-Paul-Leon Glaize (1842 - 1932)
painter of history, allegorical subjects, genre scenes, portraits.
He was first a pupil of his father, the painter Auguste-Barthelemy Glaize. He entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris in the studio of Jean - Léon Gérome He obtained a second Rome Prize in 1866. He exhibited at the Salon from 1869 and won numerous medals.
Léon Glaize died in 1932 and was buried in Paris at the Père Lachaise cemetery.
Listed in Bénézit

Signature top right
Large oil on canvas Portrait of a woman
Dated 1902 top left
Art Nouveau frame in wood and gilded stucco