Edge Of Creuse - Léon R. Bardelle (1865-1960)

An oil on canvas measuring 55X38 cm representing a bank of Creuse (Crozant) signed lower right and dated 1909 by "Bord de Creuse 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 by the latter as a boarder at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. At the beginning of the 1890s, the town hall of Limoges commissioned a statue by Denis Dussoubs for one of the main squares of the city, a statue inaugurated on April 24, 1892. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants from 1908 to 1913. The Crozant school informally designates a succession of colonies of artists practicing landscape painting and who had established themselves around the village of Crozant, located on the northern edge of the Creuse department, hence its name.