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Leon L’Hermitte was born in 1844 and was still executing works in the
French rural tradition at his death in 1925, making him the last in an
illustrious group of artists dedicated to this genre. He showed
artistic talent at a young age, and in 1863 left his home at
Mont-Saint-Pere, Aisne for the Petite Ecole, where he studied with
Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, in Paris. Lecoq was known for his
program of training the visual memory of his students, and his theories
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