12 Facts About Auguste Leroux

Jules Marie Auguste Leroux was born in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris on 14 April 1871, during the Commune.

Auguste Leroux 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.

Auguste Leroux won the first Grand Prix de Rome in June 1894 with Judith presenting the Head of Holofernes to the people of Bethulia.

Auguste Leroux left for Italy for three years of study at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1895 to 1898, accompanied by the painter Adolphe Dechenaud and musician Henri Rabaud.

Auguste Leroux exhibited at the Salon of French artists from the beginning of the year 1898.

Auguste Leroux 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 Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and was made a knight of the Legion of Honor.

Auguste Leroux's younger brother Georges Paul Leroux was a brilliant artist who won the Prix de Rome in painting in 1906 and was a member of the Academie des beaux-arts.

Auguste Leroux won a Gold Medal at the Salon of French artists in 1926 and the Prix de Rome in 1927.

Auguste Leroux continued her training at the Casa de Velazquez in Madrid, and in 1931 married in Paris the Spanish sculptor Enrique Perez Comendador.

Auguste Leroux won the Prix de Rome in 1926 with The Family, Silver medal at the Salon of French artists in 1924, Gold medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937.

Auguste Leroux was a resident of the Casa de Velazquez in Madrid in 1935.