The Life and Training of Léon Huber Léon Huber was born in 1858 in the former 2nd arrondissement of Paris, France. His early years were shaped by the streets of the city, eventually leading him to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. It was within these walls that he began to refine his technical skills and develop the hand that would later capture the small, quiet movements of domestic life. He was a man of the cit…