Tableaux, Sculptures et Dessins Anciens et du XIXe siècle

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Lot 205
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EMILE LÉVY | Sleeping child

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • Emile Lévy
  • Sleeping child
  • Signed, situated and dated upper right EMILE LEVY. PARIS. 1871
  • Oil on canvas
  • 57,3 x 98,2 cm ; 22 5/9 by 38 2/3 in.

Exhibited

Possibly, Salon, Paris, 1873, n°954, titled Enfant

Catalogue Note

Emile Lévy painted frequently very little girls asleep, often in pastel. These subjects allowed the artist to show his virtuosity in painting the human body and were very appreciated by the public who saw an ideal and pure representation of innocent children dreaming.