Victor Pérard


Victor Semon Pérard was an illustrator and author.
Perard attended the Art Students League and National Academy of Design in New York as well as the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He studied anatomy at New [York University Medical College] and taught life drawing classes at Cooper Union for 20 years and at the Traphagen School of Fashion in New York for 10 years.
Perard authored the well known book Anatomy in Drawing as well as Drawing Horses, Faces and Expressions, Sketching Landscape, Blackboard Fun, Drawing Animals, Drawing Horses, and How to Draw. His etchings, aquatints and lithographs are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, and his oil paintings of General John J. Pershing and Marshal Foch are at the Smithsonian War Museum in Washington D.C. His artworks are also held by the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Museum of [the City of New York], and the American Watercolor Society. He was survived by his wife Ernestine.
He was co-illustrator with Warren B. Davis of Herbert Ward's Five Years with Congo Cannibals.
Alphaeus Philemon Cole painted a portrait of him. The New York Times ran his obituary July 10, 1957.

Works

Author and illustrator

  • Anatomy and Drawing
  • Blackboard Fun
  • Drawing Animals
  • Drawing Horses
  • ''Sketching Landscape''

Illustrator