Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 brass Swiss cheese holder with just a very small

with just a very small amount of loosening/loss of the embroidery in a couple of spots (as documented in photos)

last forever

presumed mid-century

This lovely matte green glazed mission style vessel would be terrific as a planter or cachepot

whip trailing gracefully through the air

Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 brass Swiss cheese holder with just a very smallI 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