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Pair of watercolors with gouache highlights signed E. Lessore*, preparatory works for painting on ceramics (for the Manufacture de Sèvres), depicting two bucolic scenes with nude or undressed young women, bathers or naiads by the river, in gilded wood frames, circa 1850 mid-19th century.
These watercolors are in good condition. One is signed, also with a label on the back ("Lessore figures 1853-1855 Manufacture de Sèvres").
Please note: slight wear on frames, age-related wear, see photos.
* Émile-Aubert Lessore (1805-1876)
was a French painter. Émile-Aubert Lessore worked in his studio at no. 15 rue de Calais in the present-day 9th arrondissement of Paris, at the foot of the Butte Montmartre. With William Wyld (1806-1889), he undertakes a trip to North Africa, from which he brings back numerous Orientalist sketches, drawings and paintings. This trip was recounted in their illustrated work: Voyage pittoresque dans la Régence d'Alger en 1830. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1831 to 1950. In the 1840s, Lessore trained as a ceramic painter and worked at the Manufacture de Sèvres in the 1850s.
Artist highly rated on ArtPrice.
Dimensions
Frame 48.6 cm x 45 cm
View size 27.6 cm x 24 cm
Catalogue number: 910 376
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Ref: Y44LN4RO5H