Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 fine art I don't really know the

I don't really know the story of this wonderful

Signed Italy and numbered on the bottom

is any indication

emigrating in 1939

The puppets appear never to have been used

Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 fine art I don't really know theI purchased this and a few other pieces Pierre Albert Leroux (1890 1959) from a dealer in France that I found online; I think I saw this one first, and just fell in love with its immediacy, and perhaps especially the rendering of the seated cross legged next to his campfire int he background! While I might have guessed that he was self taught, I have learned that Leroux, born in Versailles, trained under Academic history painters Fernand Cormon and