Biography
Armand Coussens (b. Saint-Ambroix (Gard), France 1881 - d. Nîmes, France 1935) studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, under Alexis Lahaye. He went to Paris (1900-07) but returned to become a professor of drawing at the Beaux-Arts, Nîmes. He began etching in 1912 and by 1919 the Musée du Luxembourg - where Coussens had spent so many days studying the Impressionists bought eight etchings and a painting, as well as two watercolours by his wife, Jeanne, who had also studied under Alexis Lahaye.
