The Death of Orpheus

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1870

Henri Leopold Lévy (French, 1840–1904)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Henri Leopold Lévy
Title: The Death of Orpheus
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1865–1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: Henri Lévy
Dimensions: 46.5 × 55.8 cm (18 3/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Harold T. Martin Trust
Reference Number: 1977.4
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Dorothy M. Kosinski, “Orpheus in Nineteenth-Century Symbolism, Studies in the Fine Arts: The Avant-Garde” Ph.D., New York University, 1985 (Uni Research Press, Ann Arbor, 1989), p. 197, fig. 6.20.

Madame Duteil [according to label on reverse]. Purchased by Jacques Fischer, Paris, at the Marché aux Puces [see Patrice Marandel letter in curatorial file]. Galerie B. G. Verte, Paris by 1976; sold to the Art Institute, 1976.

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