Henry LEROLLE ( 1848 -1929)
He trained at the Charles Suisse Academy and then entered the Paris School of Fine Arts in the studio of Louis Lamothe. He debuted at the Salon of 1868. He exhibited regularly at the National Society of Fine Arts where he obtained numerous distinctions, including a gold medal in 1900.
Henry Lerolle surrounds himself with artists whose works he collects, musicians and writers like Degas, Monet, Renoir, Maurice Denis, Gustave Moreau. Violinist and amateur composer, it was through his wife, Madeleine Escudier, that he was introduced to contemporary music. He became Claude Debussy’s friend and forged relations with Henri Dupais, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky.
His two daughters married the sons of his friend the industrialist and collector Henri Rouart. They pose for Edgard Degas, Renoir, Maurice Denis or Albert Besnard.
MUSEUMS
– In Paris: Museum of Modern Art; The Petit Palais.
-In the provinces: Carcassonne, Mulhouse, Nice, Orleans, Le Havre.
-International:
New York, Metropolitan Museum,
Boston, Minneapolis,
Bucharest,
Budapest; National Museum,
BIBILIOGRAPHY
– Gérard Schurr, Pierre Cabane, Dictionnaire des petits maîtres de la peinture, 1820-1920, t. II, Paris, Editions of the amateur, 1996
Value of Tomorrow, Les Éditions de L’Amateur, Volume V
