Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 Japanese hand thrown plate tethered by wire

tethered by wire

with one end tucking into the other where they meet at the center of one side

it shows a strong Arts and Crafts sensibility (looking at that row of trees along the horizon line

a bit of loss to the paint on the back side and a couple of small spots on the front visible if viewed from a certain angle

and I find the drawings pretty charming--a pretty great thing for the desk

Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 Japanese hand thrown plate tethered by wireI 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