Clara Filleul, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Clara Filleul

French painter

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1822

Place of Birth: Nogent-le-Rotrou, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1878

Profession: painter, children's writer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Clara Pauline Filleul, also Clara Filleul de Pétigny, (1822–1878) was a French painter and children's writer.
Together with the painter Raymond Monvoisin she travelled to South America in the late 1840s, becoming a successful portrait painter in Santiago.
On returning to France, she exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1860.
As an author, from 1846 she published a number of illustrated children's stories.