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Late 19th early 20th century painting
An oil on canvas sizes 55X38 cm depicting a bank of Creuse river (Crozant), signed lower right and dated 1909 by Léon R. BARDELLE (1865-1960)
Born in Limoges in 1865, Léon Roussel-Bardelle began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts de Limoges before being sent there as a boarder to the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. In the early 1890s, the Limoges town hall commissioned a statue by Denis Dussoubs for one of the city's main squares, which was inaugurated on April 24, 1892.
He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants from 1908 to 1913.
The Crozant School informally refers to a series of artist colonies practicing landscape painting that had settled around the village of Crozant, located on the northern edge of the Creuse department, hence its name.
