ARTIST: Auguste Jules Marie Leroux (France, 1871 - 1954)
NAME: Flamenco Dancer at Mirror
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Few small paint losses. Few very small scattered inpaintings/touch ups.
SIGHT SIZE: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches / 25 x 20 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Jules Marie Auguste Leroux was a French painter and illustrator. His younger brother Georges Paul Leroux (1877-1957) was also a brilliant artist who won the Prix de Rome in painting in 1906 and was a member of the Academie des Beaux-arts.Jules Marie Auguste Leroux was born in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris on 14 April 1871, during the Commune.As a young man he entered the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs where he studied drawing of nudes from models and after academics. He was forced work on fashion drawings and illustrations for children.In 1892 he was then admitted to the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts on the Rue Bonaparte, where he studied in the studio of Leon Bonnat (1833-1922).He won many successes including the 3rd drawing Medal in January 1892, the 2nd Medal in July and the 2nd Medal in November of that year. He did his military service with the 46th Infantry at Fontainebleau.Back in Paris in September 1893, he won the prize for figure drawing in November 1893 and the prize for torso in March 1894. He remained with the school until he was aged 23.He won the first Grand Prix de Rome in June 1894 with "Judith presenting the Head of Holofernes to the people of Bethulia", painting preserved at the National School of Fine Arts of Paris.He left for Italy for three years of study at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1895-1898, accompanied by the painter Adolphe Dechenaud and musician Henri Rabaud.At the villa, he met the musician Henri Busser, with whom he befriended and whose portrait he painted.He exhibited at the Salon of French artists from the beginning of the year 1898. He earned a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900.Auguste Leroux was a Professor at the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris for 30 years, a jury member of the committee of French Artists Society in 1904, an art teacher at the Academy de la Grande Chaumiere, and was made a knight of the Legion of Honor.Auguste Leroux was a great success as an illustrator of works by authors such as Giacomo Casanova, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Stendhal and Anatole France. These editions are highly prized by bibliophiles.He died in Paris on 26 March 1954.