Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 brass Swiss cheese holder and dried over a period

and dried over a period of several weeks

I really love the paint job on this one--a nice warm brown with terrific orange details outlining the drawers and punctuating the center of the handles

Plus an unused back

Dimensions: 9 1/4" inches in diameter

Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 brass Swiss cheese holder and dried over a periodI 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