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Jules-eugène Lenepveu XIX -académie Nude -91 X 65

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"Jules-eugène Lenepveu XIX -académie Nude -91 X 65"

Splendid full-length academy of a beautiful Italian soberly androgynous -

Nervous body, slim bust and hip, assertive musculature, diaphanous skin contrasting with the brown skin of the hands and calves -
Just a cameo punctuated the neck of our beautiful Italian -

The daring sobriety of the By the way, the purity, the outrageous contrasts seduced me in this canvas - Bel Etat, re-lined later - Signed / dated top right -

Very mature canvas made when he was 27 years old ..

With frame - 91 x 75 Unframed - 81 x 65

Grand Prix de Rome in 1847 Director of the Académie de France in Rome from 1872 to 1878

Jules Eugène Lenepveu Boussaroque de Lafont, known as Jules Lenepveu [1], was born in Angers on December 12, 1819. He entered the School of Fine Arts in Angers then the School of Fine Arts in Paris.

Among other things, he created the ceiling of the Opera, which was covered under Malraux by the fresco by Chagall. We owe him many prestigious commissions, a series of sets for the Pantheon, in 1871 the ceiling of the Angers theater.…. - Known above all for these historical and allegorical compositions -

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