He Painted With the Renoir and Debussy—So Why Don’t We Know His Name?

Henry Lerolle. The Organ Rehearsal (1885). Courtesy - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Who was Artist Henry Lerolle? Born on October 3, 1848, in Paris, artist Henry Lerolle was the second son of Adele-Edme Delaroche and Pierre Lerolle, a bronze manufacturer, engraver and landscape painter. Henry began studying the violin at a very young age with Edouard Colón. He was a music prodigy. At the age of sixteen, […]

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