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Auguste Leroux

11 works held in 4 museums

Parisian painter and illustrator, Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1894, illustrator of Huysmans's À rebours, 1871-1954

The Pont Alexandre III, Auguste Leroux

The Pont Alexandre III, c. 1917.

Le pont Alexandre III, vers 1917 (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), oil on canvas

Musée Carnavalet, France

“On time,” he said, “and rue de Rivoli”, Auguste Leroux

“On time,” he said, “and rue de Rivoli”, 1920.

À l'heure, fit-il, et rue de Rivoli (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), etching

University of Ottawa Library, Canada

Man in an armchair in a library, Auguste Leroux

Man in an armchair in a library

Man in een stoel in een bibliotheek (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), etching and drypoint

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

The Jewel-Studded Tortoise, Auguste Leroux

The Jewel-Studded Tortoise, 1920.

La Tortue constellée (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), etching

University of Ottawa Library, Canada

The Mirror, Auguste Leroux

The Mirror, 1920.

Le Miroir (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), etching

University of Ottawa Library, Canada

Interior view of the Butte-aux-Cailles swimming pool, Auguste Leroux

Interior view of the Butte-aux-Cailles swimming pool, c. 1924.

Vue intérieure de la piscine de la Butte-aux-Cailles (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), oil on cardboard

Musée Carnavalet, France

Golgotha!, Auguste Leroux

Golgotha!, 1920.

Golgotha ! (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), etching

University of Ottawa Library, Canada

Portrait of Des Esseintes, Auguste Leroux

Portrait of Des Esseintes, 1920.

Portrait de Des Esseintes (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), etching

University of Ottawa Library, Canada

3rd National Defence Loan. Subscribe for the France that fights! For the one that grows greater each day, Auguste Leroux

3rd National Defence Loan. Subscribe for the France that fights! For the one that grows greater each day, 1917.

3e EMPRUNT/ DE LA DEFENSE NATIONALE/ Souscrivez/ pour la… (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), lithographic poster

Musée Carnavalet, France

Portrait of J.-K. Huysmans (frontispiece), Auguste Leroux

Portrait of J.-K. Huysmans (frontispiece), 1920.

Portrait de J.-K. Huysmans (frontispice) (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), etching

University of Ottawa Library, Canada

The Two Heads, Auguste Leroux

The Two Heads, 1898.

Les deux têtes (museum title)

Auguste Leroux (French), oil on canvas

Maison de Victor Hugo, France

Works by Auguste Leroux (1871-1954), in the public domain, each linked to its record at the institution that holds it. A pupil of Léon Bonnat, winner of the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1894 and a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Leroux was a history painter, a painter of Parisian life and a book illustrator: for the publisher Ferroud he designed the compositions for Huysmans's À rebours (1920), etched by Eugène Decisy. These plates, shown here first, among them the tortoise encrusted with gems, bear the inscriptions “Aug. Leroux pinx.” and “E. Decisy sc.”: the composition is Leroux's, the engraving Decisy's. Six of them are pages of the copy held by the University of Ottawa library and scanned on the Internet Archive; the seventh is in the Rijksmuseum. They are followed by the paintings and drawings that the museums of Paris have put online (The Two Heads, after Victor Hugo's La Légende des siècles, the Pont Alexandre III, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Butte-aux-Cailles swimming pool) and two posters for the national loans of 1917 and 1918. The titles are those of the holders, with their translation.