Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 fine art The puppets appear never to

The puppets appear never to have been used

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

and the backside is pretty terrific too

emigrating in 1939

I think there is almost nothing more beautiful than old wooden tool handles

Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 fine art The puppets appear never toI 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