Henri Edmond Joseph Delacroix was born at 15, rue Jean Bellegambe in Douai, where his family ran a hardware store. His father's cousin discovered his talent during his childhood and became his mentor. He apprenticed in Lille with Carolus-Duran and Alphonse Colas. He began at the Salon of 1881 by translating his surname “Delacroix” into English “Cross”, to distinguish himself from Eugène Delacroix, based on an idea from his friend the painter François Bonvin[3]. A neo-impressionist painter edit Initially a naturalist, Henri-Edmond Cross became friends with the neo-impressionist painters, whose anarchist convictions he shared[4]. From 1896, he collaborated with Jean Grave's Temps nouvelles by offering him drawings and lithographs (the first drawing, L'Errant, was not signed), as well as watercolors for raffles to support the newspaper and its publications. [4]. He illustrates with a lithograph the novel by John-Antoine Nau, La Gennia, a heterodox spiritualist novel[3]. Two color lithographs followed, one appearing by Ambroise Vollard (La Promenade, 1897), then in the review Pan (Les Champs-Élysées, 1898)[3]. He is particularly linked to Charles Angrand, Maximilien Luce (who painted his portrait) and Théo van Rysselberghe[4]. He only adopted divisionism in 1891 with his friend Paul Signac, shortly before the death of Georges Seurat[5]. He spent every summer in Provence from 1883 before settling permanently in Saint-Clair in the Var in 1891[ref. desired]. Inspired by the Mediterranean light, like many of his peers, he painted landscapes on the Provençal coasts and in the hinterland. It also represents the work of peasants through genre scenes. His work influenced Henri Matisse and the Fauvist painters The drawing is framed under glass the drawing is clean, there are reflections of the glass in the photos Type: Drawing Material: Chalk Characteristics: Signed Theme: Child