Léon Louis Oury (1846–1929) A Cow Drinking Near A Mill

Léon Louis Oury (1846–1929)
A Cow Drinking Near a Mill
(probably near Chartres)
oil on canvas, signed and dated 1904
71x92cm
important period gilded wood frame
98x121cm

Léon Louis Oury, born on December 6, 1846, in Chartres, where he died on June 6, 1929, was a French painter.

Léon Louis Oury was the son of Hyppolite Oury (1811–1893), chief secretary at the Chartres City Hall, and Marie Elisabeth Rosalie Eustache (1822–1895). His maternal grandfather was the painter Honoré Jean Dubois-Duperray; his niece, Thérèse Marie Oury-Picavet (1880–1972), would also become a painter. In 1878, he married Joséphine Sophie Edian; Ladislas Ciesielski served as a witness at the wedding.A student of Isidore Pils and Gabriel Ferrier, he exhibited at the Salon beginning in 1880

He died at the age of 82 in Chartres.

Public collection
Chartres, Museum of Fine Arts:
Jesus Christ, copy of a fresco by Bernardino Luini on display at the Louvre, oil on canvas, 100 × 70 cm, donated by the artist in 1873;
View of the Porte-Guillaume in Chartres, oil on canvas, 48 × 64 cm, 1879;
The Pont des Minimes