Cyclopedia of Painters

Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings
edited by John Denison Champlin jr
critical editor Charles C. Perkins
Kennikat press, inc., Port Washington, N.Y.
1969, volume III, p. 411

PELEZ, FERNAND, born in Paris; contempory. Genre painter, pupil of Cabanel and Barrias.
Medals: 3d class, 1876; 2d class, 1879; 1st class, 1880.
Works:
Adam and Eve (1876);
Death of the Emperor Commodus, Roman Girl about to Bathe (1879);
At th Bathing Place, Little Chickweed-Seller (1880);
Motherhood, Girl Selling Chickweed (1881);
A Philosopher, Irreconciliable (1882);
Homeless (1883);
A family (1884),
M. de Lesseps; A Martyr, La misère (1885);
The Victim (1886),
John G. Johnson, Philadelphia.