![Fernand Pelez - Grimaces and Misery, the Acrobats [1888]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3912/14334970334_95f0434ba7_o.jpg)
Fernand Pelez (Paris, January 18, 1843 - August 7, 1913) was a French painter of Spanish origin who worked in Paris. His father, Fernand Pelez de Cordova (1820–1899), was a Parisian painter as well, and was one of his teachers. Pelez was a commercial failure in the 1880s, and after the failure of his L'Humanité at the Salon of 1896, he became something of a recluse, refusing to exhibit or sell his work.
[Musée du Petit Palais, Paris - Oil on canvas, 114.6 x 292.7 cm]