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Auguste Léon César Haudebert, known as Léon Hodebert, was born in 1851 in Saint-Michel-sur-Loire and was a French painter and engraver. Adopting the name Léon Hodebert, he first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1877, appearing again in 1879. Read the full biography

Auguste Léon César Haudebert, known as Léon Hodebert, was born in 1851 in Saint-Michel-sur-Loire and was a French painter and engraver. Adopting the name Léon Hodebert, he first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1877, appearing again in 1879. He was a pupil of the Comte de Galembert. Subsequently, he regularly participated in the Salon of French Artists from 1880 to 1909, becoming a member in 1889.
In 1890, Charles Touzet erected the villa La Cuola in La Turbie, decorated with paintings by his friend Léon Hodebert. Between 1902 and 1903, after living between Beauvais, Mont-Saint-Aignan (near Rouen) and Paris, he moved to Lille, where he taught at the local school of fine arts, counting numerous students, including Pierre Breyne-Marcel . Hodebert produced female nudes, portraits and some landscapes. He is the author of a bronze medal for the city of Lille from 1902 and some lithographs. On May 16, 1914, Hodebert died in Neuilly-sur-Seine.