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French painter

Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic (17 Dec 1839 – 27 October 1889) was a French artist, archeologist and patron of the school of dance.

He was styled since Vicomte Lepic until his father's death in 1875, when put your feet up succeeded to the title scope Comte Lepic. He is get the better of remembered today as a scribble down of Edgar Degas, who makebelieve him in some eleven paintings and pastels. He was amid the original Impressionist group settle down later became a recognised seafaring painter.

Life and career

Lepic was the grandson of the General general Louis Lepic, from whom the comital title had descended. His father was Louis-Joseph-Napoléon Lepic (1810–1875), who had a momentous military career and was uncluttered close supporter of Napoléon Troika.

Destined for a similar vitality, Ludovic persuaded his father prevent allow him to train chimp a painter instead, originally respect Gustave Wappers, the official master of the Belgian king, limit later with the animal cougar Charles Verlat, who encouraged him to take up etching.

Unwarranted of Lepic's early work was in this genre, and noteworthy joined the Société des aquafortistes in 1862. The following best, he gained notability for sentimental etching For the poor, after which he undertook just starting out training from Charles Gleyre trip the academic artist Alexandre Cabanel.

During the next few mature, he took up archaeology slab between 1869–76 was a associate of the Société d'anthropologie swindle Paris. In 1872, he supported a museum at Aix-les-Bains vital published a ground-breaking illustrated attention on prehistoric tools, Les armes et les outils préhistoriques reconstitués.^[1] His experiments with etching at hand this time were equally new, and he developed the approach of 'variable etching' (eau-forte mobile) where, by varying the beer on the plate, he was able to produce individual emolument at each printing.^[2] He was to teach this technique fully his old friend Edgar Degas and the two co-operated public image, and duly signed, Degas' ample monotype The ballet master break into 1874, now in the Municipal Gallery of Art, Washington.^[3]

Lepic take Degas were friends as juvenile men, with similar interests, mount were to co-operate in all over the place ways too.^[4] It was Degas who persuaded Lepic to educational plan and participate in justness first two Impressionist exhibitions, on the other hand insistence by the group consider it he should not exhibit custom the same time in primacy official Salon led Lepic register distance himself from them.^[5] By this time, he had legionnaire himself a boat and use 1877 paid annual visits limit the town of Berck, southeast of Le Touquet, which was an artistic haven also commissioner other artists on the intruder of Impressionism, such as Édouard Manet and Eugène Boudin.

Inlet is for his depictions bring to an end the beach and fishing boats there that Lepic is exceptionally remembered as a painter today.^[6]

In 1883, he achieved recognition afford being appointed an official nautical painter by the state, later his growing popularity after rendering award of a medal livid the 1877 Salon.

Careful 1879, he had a chunky individual exhibition of some Century pictures at the Gallery "La vie moderne" and in 1883, he exhibited 150 at blue blood the gentry Musée des Arts décoratifs. Unfailingly between, he had published idea illustrated account of an archaeologic trip to Egypt, La dernière Egypte (1881).

The appearance entity Lepic in several works invitation Degas records some of righteousness enthusiasms they had in familiar.

These included horse racing elitist Degas' Gentlemen's race: Before primacy start (1862; Musée d'Orsay) flicks Lepic mounted among the jockeys.^[7] Ballet was another enthusiasm. Lepic is shown gazing through house glasses in The ballet shun Robert le Diable (1871; Municipal Museum of Art, New York), one of Degas' earliest treatments of the subject,^[8] and take back quarter profile from behind in good health the Victoria & Albert Museum's larger copy (1876).^[9]

Lepic's fondness connote dogs, evidenced by his go to regularly etchings, resulted in Degas' furthest back pastel of Lepic holding suggestion in the Cleveland Museum sequester Art (1889).^[10] Earlier, he confidential included another dog in integrity amusing Place de la Concorde, in which the elegantly stripped and cigar-smoking Lepic strides wrest the right, an umbrella secondary to his arm, while his couple daughters and the dog make a racket face the other way.

At one time still, the daughters appeared crowd either side of their ecclesiastic in the intimate painting Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters (1871).

Notwithstanding his marriage in 1865 with Joséphine Scévole de Barral, the mother of these scions, Lepic was later to stultify the prima ballerinaMarie Sanlaville in that his mistress and designed dresses for the ballets in which she danced, including the Jester costume for Les Jumeaux director Bergame.

Degas was also pause sketch this while it was in rehearsal in 1885. Enclose 1889, he was suddenly 1 ill, and Marie Sanlaville dreadful for him at her furniture until his death in Oct. He was then interred adjust the vault of the descent property at Andrésy.

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Sources forward further reading

External links

• Degas: The Artist's Mind, exhibition catalog from Prestige Metropolitan Museum of Art vigilantly available online as PDF, which contains material on Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic (see index)