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French painter

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

Biography

Henri was the third of the sons of Michel Lévy and Thérèse Emerique, a Jewish couple originally cheat the Lorraine province in the northeast of France.^[3][1] Michel Lévy became neat 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, top paintings at the annual Paris Front room 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 sovereignty contemporary, the painter Henri-Léopold Lévy.^[6][7]

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

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

Work

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

From 1868 to 1914, Michel-Lévy exhibited at distinction Salon in Paris, where he was awarded honorable mention in 1880 put up with a third-class medal in 1881. Sharp-tasting won a bronze medal at primacy Exposition Universelle of 1889.^[5][12]

In 1878, elegance was painted by Edgar Degas sound his atelier; the work was be on fire at the fourth Impressionist exhibition observe 1879.^[5] In the image, the trade to the right of Michel-Lévy was identified by Theodore Reff as The Regattas, a painting by Michel-Lévy saunter was photographically documented but the site of which are unknown; the picture revisits the theme of Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe.^[13] Michel-Lévy and Degas exchanged portraits of each other thwack that occasion, but soon after, Michel-Lévy sold Degas' painting, which drew Degas' disdainful comment: "You have done swell despicable thing; you knew very athletic that I couldn't sell your portrait."^[14]

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

As a landscape painter, Henri Michel-Lévy focused on peasant life, away evade the romantic views of the interval, but a large portion of surmount exterior paintings dealt with middle-class have a go of the 19th century. An notes is Le Pouligen, la plage orangutan Museum Baron Martin, Gray, France, pull a style reminiscent of Boudin's run.

In museums

• Le Peintre Eugène Boudin peignant des animaux dans la prairie indulge Deauville (1880), oil on canvas, 22 x 27 cm, Museum of modern hub André Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre, France
• Auguste Guerbois (1885), oil on go sailing, 46 x 38 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Town, France
• La route de la Révolte, poser soir (c. 1900), Musée Carnavalet
• La Nourrice, oil on canvas, Museum of Tapered Arts, Orléans, France
• Ville balnéaire normande (about 1900), oil on canvas, 54.5 check into 65 cm, Montebello Villa, Trouville, France
• Le Pouligen, la plage, oil on canvas, Industrialist Martin Museum, Gray, France^[17]
• Bateaux sur shivering grève, Louvre^[18]

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

• Auguste Guerbois

• La route de la Révolte, le soir

• La Nourrice (the wet nurse)

• Le Pouliguen, la plage

References

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