Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy (1860-1942), ,pastel On Nineteenth Paper.

Pastel of a little girl in a beige dress with a lace collar. Vintage late nineteenth early twentieth century. Framed under glass. Very good state. Dimensions: With frame: 54.5 x 41.5 cm At sight: 44 x 31.5 cm

Painter of religious compositions, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes. Orientalist.
He began his artistic studies in this city, then was a student of Alexandre Cabanel in Paris.
A travel scholarship allowed him to spend two years in Egypt from 1885 to 1887.
From that date he stayed every year in Algeria, sometimes as far as Constantinople or Persia. With the painter Etienne Dinet, supported by the baron Chassériau, nephew of the painter Théodore Chassériau, he founded the Société des Orientalistes Français in 1899.
He was a member of the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris in 1886. During his participation in these Salons, he received awards: third-class medal in 1882 and a travel scholarship in the same year; the Salon prize in 1884, a second-class medal in 1888, a silver medal in 1900 as part of the Universal Exhibition in Paris. Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1908.