Émile Lévy
Émile Lévy (August 29, 1826 in Paris – 1890) was a French genre and portrait painter. • Illustration — Émile Lévy, Portrait of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, 1882
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Émile Lévy
Nadar · Reproduction en photoglyptie (Woodburytype) dans l'édition Galerie Contemporaine des Illustrations Françaises, Paul de Lacroix, tome 7, 1890 · Public domain
- Born
- 1826
- Died
- 1890
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Fields
- genre painting
- Movements
- academic art
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He was a pupil of François-Édouard Picot and Abel de Pujol. He also studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1854. On his return from Italy, he settled in Paris, and devoted himself to portrait painting. He exhibited in the Salon, receiving a first-class medal in 1878, and the Legion of Honor in 1867. Among the more important of his works are: “Noah Cursing Canaan” (1855); “Supper of the Martyrs” (1859); “Death of Orpheus” (1866), Luxembourg Museum; “Love and Folly” (1874); “Infancy” (1885); “The Elements,” Salon of Ministry of State, Louvre; “Presentation of the Virgin,” Trinity Church, Paris.
Page 4 du Journal Amusant, "Visite au Salon de 1877" par Louis Morel Retz, dit Stop. Datée du 16 juin 1877, dans le numéro 1085. L'illustration appartient à la série des Salons Comiques, la page est une critique comique des oeuvres du Salon de 1877. De haut en bas et de gauche à droite, y figurent les caricatures d'une peinture de Giuseppe de Nittis, une sculpture de Léonie Halévy, une peinture de
Louis Pierre Gabriel Bernard Morel-Retz · Gallica, Journal Amusant
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1826
Émile Lévy born at former 7th arrondissement of Paris.
1890
Émile Lévy died at Paris.
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