Léopold Stevens (1866-1935) - Algeria Tlemcen Watercolor Landscape From 1883 Signed And Framed

Original watercolor on paper 22 cm x 14 cm, sold with its frame under glass 31 cm x 23.5 cm, initials LS lower right, dated Tlemcen 83 and representing a landscape of Tlemcen, a city located in northern Algeria.
Very good state. Sold with certificate invoice.
Léopold Stevens (1866-1935)
Léopold Marie Bernard Louis Stevens, born in Paris (9th arrondissement) on November 2, 1860 and died in Paris (7th arrondissement) on September 8, 1935, was a French painter, illustrator and poster artist. Son of the Belgian-born painter Alfred Stevens, Léopold was taught painting by his father at a very young age. He does not attend any art school. He grew up in a family of collectors, art lovers and music lovers who received a lot. In 1887, Léopold met the young Claude Debussy, then unknown, and befriending him, introduced him to his family. Crossing paths with many popular musicians there, Debussy frequented the Parisian home of the Stevens located rue de Calais for four years. The Stevens family subsequently experienced financial problems, following bad investments and Debussy offered to marry Leopold's sister, Catherine, who politely refused. Little by little, Léopold specialized as a genre painter, executing less portraits of elegant and melancholy women for which he had had some success, than seascapes and landscapes, as well as some scenes of Parisian life. It is on this last theme that he produced some remarkable posters, including a series on the singer Eugénie Buffet, with whom he remained linked for eighteen years. Jules Chéret chooses to reproduce Eugénie Buffet, the popular singer for his review Les Maîtres de l'annonce (1895-1900). He also illustrated a few works, for Édouard Drumont and Georges Courteline, of whom he made the engraved portrait.