Painting Beguinage Of Bruges - Oil On Canvas - Signed Léon Cassel - French Artist

Painting, oil on canvas Beguinage of Bruges Signed: Cassel French artist Canvas size: 98 x 147cm, without frame Reference Bénézit: Cassel Léon Born in Lille. XIX-XX Landscape painter, pupil of Léon Bonnat, Auguste Glèze He exhibited in Paris at the Salons of French Artists, of which he was a member, and Independent Artists. He painted landscapes of Belgium, notably in Bruges in the 1930s.Léon-Louis Cassel was born in Lille (59) on May 10, 1873. He is the son of Louis Cassel, painter and decorator, and Marie-Justine Leroux.  He died on January 30, 1961 in Paris. In October 1885 (1): He entered the School of Fine Arts in his hometown, where he was a pupil of Pharaon de Winter, with the painter Mr. Edmond Jamois as a fellow student.  He became a pupil of Bonnat and Glaize at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris (2). After the 1st World War he fixes on his canvases the old picturesque streets of a small city (destroyed entirely by the Germans) Dixmude (in the Flemish region of Belgium), but also the streets and districts of Montmartre in Paris.