The Life of Léon Trousset Léon Trousset was a French painter whose life followed the movement of a nomad. Born in France in 1838, he eventually moved far from his origins to become an itinerant artist in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. He did not settle in a single studio but instead moved through the landscapes he chose to document. His presence was felt in the borderlands from the late 1860s through the early 1900s, a pe…