Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 Japanese hand thrown plate The handle extends through a

The handle extends through a hole in the flat

I could not resist this old wooden wheel

and I find the drawings pretty charming--a pretty great thing for the desk

perched on a shelf

Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 Japanese hand thrown plate The handle extends through aI 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