Full Record |
| Title |
The First Lilac |
| Collection |
Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust |
| Artist |
Levy, Emile (French artist, 1826-1890) |
| Date Earliest |
possibly about 1880 |
| Date Latest |
possibly about 1885 |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
This scene of a girl sitting in a park with a basket with lilac on her knees would have appealed to conservative French bourgeois taste. Lévy was a pupil of Alexandre Abel de Pujol and François-Edouard Picot at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1848. Lévy specialized in classical and biblical subjects and painted in a neoclassical style. |
| Current Accession Number |
1279 |
| Inscription |
front lr 'Emil Lévy' (?) |
| Subject |
portrait; figure; landscape |
| Measurements |
126.0 x 104 cm.0 cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Given by J. G. Graves 1943. |
| Rights Owner |
Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust |
| Author |
Katia Mai |
