Lucien Dasselborne (1873-1962) French/Belgian, Signed/Numbered Lithograph. Depicts a quaint river (likely the Dyle) with a bridge, some homes, and some trees along it. Title: "The Hamlet." Framed, under glass. Signed in pencil bottom right. Numbered 58-250 in pencil bottom left. 

Overall Size: 27 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. 

Sight Size: 19 3/4 x 24 1/4 in. 

Lucien Dasselborne, also known by the pseudonym Francois Davril, was born in Louvroil, France in 1873. Little is known of his early life, but he served in World War I where he first began sketching soldiers and painting by copying works of other artists, particularly Fernand Allard L’Olivier. After the war he moved into an apartment on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris to pursue art in earnest, working a series of odd jobs while exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Francais where he received an Honorable Mention in 1922. A self-taught artist, he began to work primarily crafting landscapes and cityscapes, both as paintings and aquatint etchings. At the height of his career, he could complete a piece in a single day for local lithographers to print and disseminate to the blossoming tourist trade. He never achieved widespread international acclaim in his lifetime, but he also exhibited at the Salon de la Societe Nationale and the Salon dAutomne, with critics categorizing his style as Impressionist. A stroke in his early 60s eventually led him to seek quieter quarters for health reasons, and he settled in Doornik, Belgium in 1937. Too old to fight in World War II, he quietly provided financial assistance to the local Resistance movement but became withdrawn from society after questioning by the Gestapo in 1942. His later works are almost all of locations around the Dyle (Dijle) River that flows through Belgium and The Netherlands, and he passed away at his home in 1962.