Ker-Xavier Roussel is the illustarator for “Teaching the Dog” from the colour lithograph L’Estapie Originale (1893) .

Ker-Xavier Roussel was born in Lorry-lès-Metz, Moselle on December 10, 1867.  At the age of fifteen he began studies at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris; alongside his friend, Édouard Vuillard.

• In 1888, Roussel enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts.
• He is best known for his paintings of French landscapes, usually depicting women, children, nymphs and fauns in bucolic settings.
• In 1899, Roussel, Vuillard, and another close friend, Pierre Bonnard, traveled to Lake Como, Venice and later to Milan.
• In 1926 Roussel won the Carnegie Prize for art.

Ker-Xavier Roussel died on 6 June, 1944, at his home in L’Étang-la-Ville, Yvelines.

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