Léon Trousset
Léon Trousset (c. 1838 – 29 December 1917) was a French artist who began as an itinerant painter in Northern California where he produced landscapes and architectural and historical scenes. He later lived and worked in Texas, New Mexico, and Northern Mexico where he eventually settled.
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Léon Trousset
Creator:Leon Trousset · Self-photographed · Public domain
- Born
- 1838 · France.
- Died
- 1917 · Ciudad Juárez.
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- France
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- painter
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Among the museums holding his works are the El Paso Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Work by Léon Trousset is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum, El Paso Museum of Art and Albuquerque Museum.
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Léon Trousset (1838 – 1917) is described as a painter in the authority records of the Getty Union List of Artist Names. The birth of Léon Trousset is recorded in 1838, and the death in 1917.
'View of El Paso' by Léon Trousset, 1885
Léon Trousset · Own work, Wmpearl
Léon Trousset, Leon Trousset - Old Mesilla Plaza - Google Art Project
Leon Trousset (born France 1838 - died Juarez, Mexico 1917) – Artist (American) Born in France. Died in Juarez, Mexico. Details on Google Art Project · RgERn4Pqrf9ovA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level
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- 1.Shields, Scott A. (2006). "Léon Trousset" in Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula art Colony, 1875–1907. University of California Press. (Reprinted with permission on leontrousset.com, retrieved 26 September 2017.)
- 2.Chalmers, Claudine (2001). "Splendide Californie!: Selections by French Artists in California History, 1786–1900". California History, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 154–179. University of California Press. .
- 3.Brown, R. B. (April 2006). "Leon Trousset: An Itinerant Painter in New Mexico". La Crónica de Nuevo México, Issue 67, pp. 3 and 7. Historical Society of New Mexico
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