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Léonard Sarluis (21 October 1874 – 20 April 1949), was a French naturalized Symbolist painter.
Sarluis was born in The Hague. Arriving in Paris in 1894, he became a well-known boulevardier. Read the full biography

Léonard Sarluis (21 October 1874 – 20 April 1949), was a French naturalized Symbolist painter.
Sarluis was born in The Hague. Arriving in Paris in 1894, he became a well-known boulevardier. He traveled extensively, including Naples, Italy, and Russia. His work was praised by Jean Lorrain and Oscar Wilde.
He exhibited at the Salon de la Rose+Croix and the Salon des Artistes Français and, with Armand Point, designed the poster for that group's fifth salon. It depicted the Ideal in the form of Perseus holding the severed head of Émile Zola in reference to the Greek myth in which Perseus beheaded the Gorgon Medusa. For the Symbolists, Zola represented in literature the oppressive naturalism they rejected.
Sarluis completed the decorative illustrations for the refectory bar of the Paris newspaper Le Journal and worked for years on a Mystical Interpretation of the Bible, the works of which were exhibited in London in 1928. He illustrated the "Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension" by Gaston de Pawlowski.
He committed suicide on 20 April 1949 in Paris.