Clara Filleul

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.