"Bord De Creuse Léon R. Bardelle (1865-1960) "crozant Gillée...""
Léon R. BARDELLE (1865-1960) oil on canvas representing a hollow edge signed lower left and located on the back hollow edge Born in Limoges in 1865, Léon Roussel-Bardelle began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Limoges before being sent by the latter as a boarder at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In the early 1890s, the Limoges town hall commissioned a statue by Denis Dussoubs for one of the city's main squares, a statue inaugurated on April 24, 1892. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants from 1908 to 1913.