Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 fine art ) cracked but stable (there's

) cracked but stable (there's a bit of old chipping along the top edge

5" inches wide and 4

emigrating in 1939

It feels perfect for a few branches of winter berries and greens as well as for spring daffodils or peonies

I don't really know the story of this wonderful

Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 fine art ) cracked but stable (there'sI purchased this and a few other pieces Pierre Albert Leroux (1890 1959) from a dealer in France that I found online; I think I saw this one first, and just fell in love with its immediacy, and perhaps especially the rendering of the seated cross legged next to his campfire int he background! While I might have guessed that he was self taught, I have learned that Leroux, born in Versailles, trained under Academic history painters Fernand Cormon and