
Property from a Private Collection
Le vertige, idylle
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June 2, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Bid
35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Emile Lévy
Paris 1826 - 1890
Le vertige, idylle
signed and dated lower left: EMILE LÉVY. / 1867
oil on canvas
canvas: 52 ⅝ by 29 in.; 133.7 by 73.7 cm
framed: 66 ⅛ by 44 ⅜ in.; 168.0 by 112.7 cm
Executed in 1867.
With M. Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired by 1868);
Private Collection, New York;
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 1 May 2001, lot 38;
Private Collection (acquired by 2001).
Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Salon de 1867, 1867, no. 968;
Leeds, National Exhibition of Works of Art, 1868, no. 1861 (lent by M. Durand-Ruel).
Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysées le 15 avril 1867, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1867, p. 133, no. 968;
A. Pothey, L’art à Paris en 1867, Paris 1867, n.p., reproduced as an autographic print;
“Émile Lévy,” Archives israélites de France, 31 May 1867, p. 33;
National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, 1868, exhibition catalogue, Leeds 1869, p. 107, no. 1861;
A. Bitard, Dictionnaire de biographie contemporaine française et étrangère, Paris 1880, p. 822;
F. Javel (ed.), “Émile Lévy,” in L’Art Français, no. 173 (16 August 1890), n.p.