Leon Detroy "the Bouquet Of Flowers" Crozant School (gullaumin, Madeline, Gargilesse...)

Léon Detroy, great painter of the Crozant school, representing a pretty bouquet of flowers in a stoneware vase Oil on canvas signed lower right Other works by the painter for sale in my gallery and to come Léon Detroy, born in Chinon on May 29, 1859 and died in Saint-Germain-d'Arcé on December 25, 1955, is a French painter. A post-impressionist artist, he is attached to the Crozant school. Many of his paintings are kept at the Bertrand Museum in Châteauroux, as well as at the George Sand and Vallée Noire Museum in La Châtre and at the Saint-Vic Museum in Saint-Amand-Montrond Léon Detroy entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1879, where he learned the basics of art with Jean-Paul Laurens. He went to Amsterdam to study Rembrandt's painting. He met Claude Monet, then it was while reading a novel by George Sand that he decided to devote his painting to the description of landscapes within the framework of the Crozant school. The Creuse valley exerted such a fascination that he dedicated several hundred paintings to it between 1890 and 1940.