Léopold Desbrosses, French, (1821 — 1900). French painter and graphic artist, he
studied under Delaroche and Corot. Desbrosses first exhibited at the Salon in 1848 and was
awarded medals in 1885, 1895 and 1900.
If utility were indeed the cause of beauty, then on that principle, the wedge-like snout of a swine... would be extremely beautiful.
Edmund Burke, British political writer in The Sublime and Beautiful. (1756).