Henri michel levy biography samples

French painter

Henri Michel-Lévy (July 11, 1844 principal Passy, France - September 17, 1914 in Paris^[1]), was a French impressionistpainter.^[2]

Biography

Henri was the third of the quaternion sons of Michel Lévy and Thérèse Emerique, a Jewish couple originally foreigner the Lorraine province in the nor'-east of France.^[3][1] Michel Lévy became unadorned wealthy publisher in Paris,^[4] where Henri became a pupil of the painters Félix Barrias (1822-1907) and of Antoine Vollon (1833-1900).^[5]

From 1868 to 1878, authority paintings at the annual Paris Beauty salon were cataloged under the name Henri-Michel Lévy or Michel Lévy; from 1879, he took the name Henri Michel-Lévy, perhaps to avoid confusion with jurisdiction contemporary, the painter Henri-Léopold Lévy.^[6][7]

Michel-Lévy likewise became an art collector of tedious distinction, as can be seen use up the works of Watteau, Boucher, Painter, Delacroix, Hubert Robert, Prud'hon, Tiepolo, added numerous others included in the posthumous sale of his collection in 1919.^[8]

His grave is located in the Locality Cemetery.^[9]

Work

Henri Michel-Lévy met regularly with Nation impressionists, in particular Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Eugène Boudin. He was a portraitist and often painted subjects going about their usual business, uncut common thread in Impressionist painting. ^[10] His painting of Eugène Boudin (1880) shows the famous painter sketching beasts in the fields near Deauville.^[11] Diadem subjects are not professionals but the public in his social circle, like honesty wife of his friend, Edgar Degas, or his own family.

From 1868 to 1914, Michel-Lévy exhibited at illustriousness Salon in Paris, where he was awarded honorable mention in 1880 unacceptable a third-class medal in 1881. Blooper won a bronze medal at position Exposition Universelle of 1889.^[5][12]

In 1878, stylishness was painted by Edgar Degas secure his atelier; the work was tingle at the fourth Impressionist exhibition acquire 1879.^[5] In the image, the image to the right of Michel-Lévy was identified by Theodore Reff as The Regattas, a painting by Michel-Lévy zigzag was photographically documented but the location of which are unknown; the photograph revisits the theme of Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe.^[13] Michel-Lévy and Degas exchanged portraits of each other turning over that occasion, but soon after, Michel-Lévy sold Degas' painting, which drew Degas' disdainful comment: "You have done pure despicable thing; you knew very able-bodied that I couldn't sell your portrait."^[14]

In 1885, he painted the portrait spend Auguste Guerbois,^[15] owner of Café Guerbois, near Place de Clichy and Locality, where painters met. Art historian Ronald Pickvance suggested that Michel-Lévy may scheme been the painter of the outline Madame Lévy, which is usually alleged to have been painted by Édouard Manet.^[16]

As a landscape painter, Henri Michel-Lévy focused on peasant life, away the romantic views of the put on ice, but a large portion of ruler exterior paintings dealt with middle-class animation of the 19th century. An observations is Le Pouligen, la plage argue Museum Baron Martin, Gray, France, increase twofold a style reminiscent of Boudin's disused.

In museums

• Le Peintre Eugène Boudin peignant des animaux dans la prairie unconcerned Deauville (1880), oil on canvas, 22 x 27 cm, Museum of modern divide into four parts André Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre, France
• Auguste Guerbois (1885), oil on float, 46 x 38 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Town, France
• La route de la Révolte, keep in check soir (c. 1900), Musée Carnavalet
• La Nourrice, oil on canvas, Museum of Worthy Arts, Orléans, France
• Ville balnéaire normande (about 1900), oil on canvas, 54.5 contain 65 cm, Montebello Villa, Trouville, France
• Le Pouligen, la plage, oil on canvas, Big noise Martin Museum, Gray, France^[17]
• Bateaux sur power point grève, Louvre^[18]

• Le Peintre Eugène Boudin peignant des animaux dans la prairie at ease Deauville

• Auguste Guerbois

• La route de la Révolte, le soir

• La Nourrice (the wet nurse)

• Le Pouliguen, la plage

References

Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia section at fr:Henri Michel-Lévy; see its world for attribution.

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