Leon Detroy Snowy Village Of Creuse Crozant School

Léon Detroy new work of the painter oil on canvas signed lower right. Representing a snowy Creuse landscape with a character who brings back a bundle of wood on his back. Perfect condition format 80 x 65cm Do not hesitate to contact me if you wish to sell a work of the Crozant school (alluaud osterlind guillaumin madeline debourg thiery maillaud ......) Also all quality works of French or foreign painters Léon Detroy born in Chinon on May 29, 1859 and died in Saint-Germain-d'Arcé on December 25, 1955 is a French painter. Post-impressionist artist, he is attached to the Crozant school. Many of his paintings are kept at the Bertrand Museum in Châteauroux, as well as at the George Sand and Vallée Noire Museum in La Châtre and at the Saint-Vic Museum in Saint-Amand-Montrond Léon Detroy between in 1879 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he learned the basics of art with Jean-Paul Laurens. He went to Amsterdam to study Rembrandt's painting. He met Claude Monet, then it was while reading a novel by George Sand that he decided to devote his painting to the description of landscapes within the framework of the Crozant school. The Creuse valley exerted such a fascination that he dedicated several hundred paintings to it between 1890 and 1940