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Head of a young woman,
ca. 1897
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, French, born Algiers, 1865–1953
2012-80
Lévy-Dhurmer first found success in Paris in the 1880s as a decorator of Art Nouveau ceramics, but following a trip to Italy in 1895, he began to produce easel paintings and pastel drawings inspired by the Italian Renaissance. The artist’s pastels of languid nudes and his portraits of fashionable personalities became popular with Parisian collectors and gained the admiration of prominent Symbolist literary figures throughout the 1890s.
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Information
Title
Head of a young woman
Dates
ca. 1897
Maker
Medium
Pastel and partial incising with metal stylus
Dimensions
61.3 × 48.3 cm (24 1/8 × 19 in.)
frame: 82.2 × 70.7 × 4.4 cm (32 3/8 × 27 13/16 × 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund
Object Number
2012-80
Signatures
Signed and dedicated in red chalk, lower left: á Madame | L.j. Bloch | trés coridialement | Lévy Dhurmer
Culture
Materials
Subject
Artist, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer;
Gift to Mme. L.J. Bloch;
Private collector by family descent, France.
2010, Sotheby's London.
2011, Camard & Associés, Paris.
Purchase by the Princeton University Art Museum
- 19th century European paintings: including Spanish painting, the orientalist sale, and German, Austrian, Scandinavian and Symbolist works; auction in London, Tuesday 23 November 2010, (London: Sotheby's, 2010)., lot 00133
- Autographes, livres, sculptures & tableaux modernes, mobilier & objets d'art du XVIIIe et XIXe, art décoratif du XXe, (Paris: Camard & associés, 2011). , lot 00080
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2012," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 71/72 (2012-13): p. 105-132., p. 123
